The Fig Tree At The Cradle Of Mankind
A review of Peter Matthiessen and Eliot Porter switch to Africa’s landscapes and wildlife. The book blends photography and prose to explore East and Central Africa from the Serengeti to Maasai lands, highlighting conservation and cultural links to legend and nature.
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Peter Matthiessen
Eliot Porter
Collins
Richardson
Africa
Apaeaee
America
Nile
Kenya
Tanzania
Serengeti
Mountains of the
Moon
Nomada
Ern
Serengeti Research Institute
H. M
Writin
Central
East Africa
Heavy Traffic on the High Road a New Jersey Parkway Tale
A police traffic chief in New Jersey manages holiday gridlock on the Carden State Parkway aided by helicopters and ambulances while subplots unfold. The novel blends practical traffic handling with human relations, theoretical pressures, and crime linked incidents, delivering a fast moving, documentary tone about people and plans amid a holiday jam.
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Frank Ingram
Troop
New Jersey
Ingram
Washington
J. B.S. Darrow
New York
Roy Lewis
Inspector Crow
Lewis
Crow
Charlie Rutland
A Short History of Australia Fourth Edition Update
G L Shaw’s The Story of Australia is hailed as a top concise history. The 1955 work has a new fourth edition by Faber, with 336 pages and price 59.25. The last two chapters on contemporary Australia updated to 1971 and the biography greatly improved.
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G_L. Shaw
Australia
Faber
Critics Hammer Oxford Twentieth Century Verse Choice
The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse edited by Philip Larkin has drawn sharp criticism for its wide scope and eccentric selections. Readers view it as Larkin shaped, with critics deeming the project overly biased and risky after a pattern of editor selections by eminent critics.
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Oxford
Gread
Edmund Chambers
Herbert Grierson
G. Bullogh
David Nichol Smith
John Hayward
Humphrey Milford
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
Auden
W. B. Yeats
Donald Bradman
Yeats
Philip Larkin
Larkin picks pleasure in Oxford poetry anthology
A reviewer defends Philip Larkin's selection in An Enjoyable Volume of Selected Poetry, praising its clarity and abundance of pleasure. The piece notes Hardy, Housman, Kipling, Yeats, Lawrence, Eliot, Auden, and Dylan Thomas among others, highlighting lesser counts like Drinkwater, Smith, Phillpotts, and ForTok.
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Larkin
Mr Larkin
Thomas Hardy
A. E. Housman
Rudyard Kipling
W. B. Yeats
D. H. Lawrence
T. 5. Eliot
Waste Land
W. H. Auden
Dylan Thomas
Moscow By Night Mare shows Moscow as art world setting
A review sketches Joyce Shub’s Moscow portrait in Moscow By Night Mare. Vannie Tompkins, a bored wife of a foreign correspondent, moves among underground artists while spies and critics surround her. The piece praises the vivid art-life portrayal but criticizes the thriller plotting and shallow lead characters.
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Joyce Shah
Moscow
Vannie Tompkins
Russia
Joyce Shub
Emi
Catherine Aird
Sloan
A History of Zionism by Walter Laqueur reviewed
A lucid scholarly review of Laqueur's comprehensive history tracing Zionism from its roots in European anti Semitism through Herzl and early movements to the British mandate and the 1948 State of Israel. The critique highlights strengths and tensions, including debates over territory, Arab opposition, and internal Jewish diversity.
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Theodor Herzl
Herzl
Dreyfus
Europe
Berlin
Laqueur
Judea
Bho Thorgimento
Ghetto
Palestine
League of Nations
Parestine
State of
Israel
Guide to Modern World Literature by Martin Seymour Smith
A concise appraisal of Martin Seymour Smiths Guide to Modern World Literature. The reviewer notes the book covers major writers across English German French Spanish Trahen literatures with strong English American sections, weaker Russian, and detailed Japanese treatment. Overall recommended for general readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin Seymour- Smith
Wolfe
Japan
Winged Victory classic tribute to the unfunniness of air war
The piece discusses M. Yeates and his World War I aviation tale Winged Victory, noting scarce early printings, later editions, and the harsh realities of air combat. It reflects on Yeates as an operational survivor and the deadly nature of aerial warfare, diagnosing his death as Flying Sickness D.
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T. M. Yeates
Yeates
Ney Oie
Royal Air Force
Knights of the Air
Yeates Suey
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