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Too Private For Public Consumption

Christopher Howse THE FIELD OF THE STAR: A PILGRIM'S JOURNEY TO SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA by Nicholas Luard Michael Joseph, £1 7.99, pp. 242 W arning: this is not a guidebook.......

Revisiting Troubled Waters

James Michie WINTER SEA: WARS, JOURNEYS, WRITERS by Alan Ross Harvill, £14.99, pp. 152 B efore Winter Sea I had never read a travel book by Alan Ross, indeed any book about the......