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Cracking The Mosquito Code

Andrew Barrow THE FEVER TRAIL: THE HUNT FOR THE CURE FOR MALARIA by Mark Honigsbaum Macmillan, £18.99, pp. 338, ISBN 0333901851 T his strange, dark forest of a book, the first......

Fifteen Who Didn't Fit In

John Michell ECCENTRICS by John Jolliffe Duckworth, £18, pp. 184, ISBN 0715630504 F ifteen main characters are exhibited in this gallery of eccentrics. Two of them (Lady Hester......

Migration

High on my windswept hill I live beneath a flight path. Each year I thrill to hear the whispering wings and haunting fog-horn cry before I see ship's anchors tossed across the......