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Lots Of Bang And No Whimper

Robin Bell ELEGIES by Douglas Dunn Faber, £4 INSTANT CHRONICLES: A LIFE by D. J. Enright OUP, £4.50 VOICES OFF by U. A. Fanthorpe Harry ChambersIPeterloo Poets, £4.50 JOUISSANCE......

A Horse-doctor In Afghanistan

Andrew Robinson BEYOND BOKHARA: THE LIFE OF WILLIAM MOORCROFT by Garry Alder Century, £16.95 D espite his obscurity relative to other 19th-century travellers, William Moorcroft......