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The Cannibal Of The High Seas

William Keen THE CUSTOM OF THE SEA by Neil Hanson Doubleday, £14.99, pp. 331 P icture this. You're on your way to Aus- tralia to deliver a yacht. A violent storm sinks her, and......

Rise And Fall Of A Wheeler-dealer

John McEwen GROOVY BOB by Harriet Vyner Faber, f20, pp. 317 T his is not a biography in the conven- tional sense; but that is suitable because its subject was not a conventional......