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Adrift In Japan

Francis King MR FOREIGNER by Matthew Kneale Weidenfeld, £10, pp. 155, ISBN 0297828991 L ike the Booker, the Whitbread has produced some controversial and occasionally even......

Hanging Up His Snow-shoes

Sara Wheeler THE BECKONING SILENCE by Joe Simpson Cape, £17.99, pp. 292, ISBN 0224061801 h e Beckoning Silence is the fifth in Joe Simpson's cycle of mountaineering books. Here,......