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Round The Earth

ADVENTURES IN PARADISE. By Willard Price. (Heinemann, 21s.) THE SEVEN LITTLE SISTERS. By William Willis. (Hutchinson, 16s.) south-west corner of Asia Minor. But, as admirers of......

Sailing From Byzantium

A HISTORY OF EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE, 476-911. By Margaret Deanesly. (Methuen, 30s.) TODAY, when so many of the assumptions of European civilisa- tion are under fire, it is......