One Of The Greatest Of Mediaeval Travellers Was Ibn Battuta,
of Tangier, 'the Traveller of Islam' who, in the fourteenth century, journeyed through Cen- tral Asia to India, crossed the Sahara, visited every Muslim State of the time, and......
Ways Of Life Widows And Their Families. By Peter Marris.
(Routledge and Kegan Paul, 18s.) The People of Ship Street. By Madeline Kerr. (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 23s.) THERE is a feeling that we have done away with the poor by passing......
Travel
En Suisse With a Carib Eye. By Edgar Mittelholzer. (Seeker and Warburg, 18s.) DUMAS was thirty-one when he wrote En Suisse; and although this is an edited translation, one-......
Victorian Builders
Thomps Telford. By L. T. C. Rolt. (Longmans, 25s.) IN this, the first book of a series dealing with British India, Michael Edwardes discusses the nineteenth-century empire and......
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