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......
No Passport To Tibet, By F. M. Bailey (hart- Davis,
25s.): exploration, old style. This is a diary kept by Colonel (then Captain) Bailey on an historic free-lance expedition to Tibet in 1913, which won the Royal Geographical......
The World Is All Islands, By Carl Nielsen (allen. , And
Unwin, 21s.): exploration without talent. This book shows just how dull a trip round the world can become. Three Danes and a cat called Isa Lei go round it in a fifty-year-old......
Metternich
A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace, 1812-1822. By Henry Kissinger. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 36s.) No one who looks at history can imagine, as......
Himalaya Shuttlecock, By Hans Kopp (hutch- Inson, 18s.) :...
by necessity. An im- mensely tough and resourceful man, the author was one of several who escaped from British in- ternment in India during the last war. On his second attempt......
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