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The Sea Monster That Never Was
David Crane THE BOUNTY by Caroline Alexander HarperCollins, 00 pp. 491, ISBN 0002572214 I t is never easy to tell a story that everyone knows and still harder to tell one that......
Several Degrees Of Bluff
Charles Mitchell EMPIRE STATE by Henry Porter Orion, £12.99, pp. 416, ISBN 0752856839 H enry Porter's new book, Empire State, is well up to the high standard of his first two.......
Tidings Of Comfort And Joy
Jonathan Keates BACCHUS: A BIOGRAPHY by Andrew Dolby The British Museum Press. £14.99, pp. 166, ISBN 0714122424 H e was born to a virgin honoured with the attentions of the most......
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