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Of Comforts No Man Speak

Dervla Murphy A RIDE ALONG THE GREAT WALL by Robin Hanbury-Tenison Century, L12.95 T he label 'explorer' is too often misap- plied; by now there is nowhere left to explore,......

Big Bang For Terrorism

Michael Ivens CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH ON TERRORISM edited by Paul Wilkinson and A. M. Stewart Aberdeen University Press, f45 THE AGE OF TERRORISM by Walter Laqueur Weidenfeld &......