Style. Five Fed-up French Youths—architects- Take An Old...
the Middle East to India, and three of them describe their adven- tures. Scrappy, vigorous, it ranges from historical research on Indian sculpture to an interesting but far too......
Destination Mecca, By Sayed Idries Shah (rider, 18s.):...
a nobly , born Moslem educated at Oxford, speaking a kind of Esperanto of sophistication, and able to meet on personal— not journalistic—terms almost anyone he cares to call on......
A Train To Tarragona, By Anthony Carson (methuen, 15s.):...
to describe, unless you A Train to Tarragona, by Anthony Carson (Methuen, 15s.): difficult to describe, unless you know Mr. Carson already; this is far more than a straight......
Travel Miscellany
A MIXED bag of travel books differ 'as much in method and presentation as in subject. Here are all sorts of countries, but the authors and their attitudes vary quite as much as......
Spain On A Shoestring, By Bernard Newman (herbert...
chirpy account of a motor-cycle trip to Spain by a breezy professional travel-writer who has written at least twenty similar-sounding books, with titles like Pedalling Poland,......
The Rhine And Its Castles, By Monk Gibbon (putnam, 25s.):
describes, with most historical emphasis, a leisurely journey along the Rhine taken by a middle-aged, serious, and agreeable traveller and his daughter. Unexciting but pleasant......
The Brass Dolphins, By Christopher Kinin- Month (seeker...
25s.): spirited and near-scholarly account of life in Malta by a seasoned Mediterranean traveller who now lives on Gozo, the smaller of the islands; spoilt at times by a chi-chi......
Previous page
