Serbian Legacy. By Cecil Stewart. (allen And Unwin, 42s.)...
Stewart's Byzantine Legacy, which is a classic and has just been deservedly reprinted, concerned itself with Constantinople, Greece and Italy. His latest book reveals that the......
Ends Of The Earth
Russia Explored. By John Brown. (Hodder and Stoughton, 16s.) An unusually and refreshingly objective and good-humoured second look at the Soviet Union (Central Asian republics......
Sorrows Of Sociology
The Idea of a Social Science. By Peter Winch. (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 12s. 6d.) Contemporary Sociology. Edited by Jacob Roucek. (Peter Owen, 70s.) The Curious Strength of......
The Most Beautiful Desert Of All. By Philippe Diole. (cape,
18s.) Some men fall in love with the desert, as others fall in love with the sea. Philippe Diold loves both, and follows his books on under- water exploration with a strange......
In Deep. By Frank Baines. (eyre And Spottis- Woode, 21s.)
To sea under sail. Sometimes the author writes amateurishly (`the lambent air was as pellucid as treacle'), but often he captures with considerable effect the wonder and......
Red Dust Of Africa. By Sacha Carnegie. (peter Davies, 16s.)
A cheerful, chatty expedition to East and Central Africa, by an author who is detached about black men and rather sardonic about the whites, who shot an elephant illegally and......
Shanks's Pony. By Morris Marples. (dent, 25s.) 'too Rich,...
lazy, and too proud,' was why nobody in England walked, either for pleasure or for profit. So Pastor Moritz was told—and by an Englishman—in the 1780s. But pedestrianism as a......
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