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INDIA REMEMBERED: A World of Beauty and Danger; Authors on the Land; Prelates and Ladies; A Caribbean Saga and ..

... India Remembered -By VERNON FANE A World of Beauty and Danger Authors on the Land Prelates and Ladies A Caribbean Saga and other New Fiction ANYONE who has lived, served or toured in India is at perfect liberty to write about their experiences there, ...

Published: Saturday 14 April 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1621 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

TO WAR WITH SWORD AND BIBLE: Leonard Mosley's Biography of Orde Wingate; the Story of a Doctor in Africa; ..

... To War with Sword and Bible Leonard Mosley' s Biography of Orde Wingate; the Story of a Doctor in Africa; Caribbean Cocktail and other new Publications with Internationa! Backgrounds -By VERNON FANE ONE of the most extraordinary figures of the last war ...

Published: Saturday 02 July 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1737 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

THEATRICAL FLOPS: An Unusual Book of Stage History

... tropical beaches in the Caribbean. Mr. Carr, who is Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Florida, was for five years a teacher of biology in Honduras. His travels have taken him to nearly every part of the Caribbean. The author is one of ...

Published: Saturday 06 April 1957
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 802 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

CHASING AN ANCIENT GREEK: Douglas Young, Scholar, Poet, Journalist, and Traveller, Reveals Himself as an ..

... with the fabulous career of Henry Morgan, the bold buccaneer captain. This extraordinary figure fought the Spaniards in the Caribbean for the excellent reason that he hated them, and won himself fortunes, and women, too, for the reason that he loved both ...

Published: Saturday 23 September 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1698 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

THREE IN A BOAT

... A BOAT Tolerance and a Well-developed Sense of Humour Go Hand-in-Hand With a Spirit of Adventure in a Family Trip to the Caribbean -By VERNON FANE SAILING and living in a 5-ton ocean racer takes a stout heart as well as a steady stomach, but there are ...

Published: Saturday 26 April 1952
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1767 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

SPORTING MEMORIES: The Pleasures of Cricket and Rugby

... notable events of the year is now an established feature, and this year's pages include illustrations of Princess Margaret's Caribbean tour. When Mario Marret and his three companions left France for the Antarctic in the autumn of 1951, their expedition followed ...

Published: Saturday 31 December 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 786 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

VERDICT ON VERDI: Carlo Gatti's Life of the Great Composer

... wandering in his eventful career. To the author wandering is the very spice of life, and his account of journeys in the Caribbean, Venezuela, Arabia, Iraq, Persia, the Far East, Australia and New Zealand is a piece of well-sustained writing. Alastair ...

Published: Saturday 22 October 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 902 | Page: 52 | Tags: Review 

SHORT STORIES FROM MANHATTAN: Tales of Power and Penetration

... have had a dull moment. MY WAY LEADS ME SEAWARD (Allen and Unwin. 18s). is Frank Wightman's account of a voyage through the Caribbean and along the American coast. It is an admirable tale well told and well illustrated. The latest addition to the Macdonald ...

Published: Saturday 09 August 1952
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 925 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

A WOMAN'S NOVEL OF EXCELLENCE: A Realistic Love Story; The Humour of the American Civil Service; William ..

... fiery impulses. The time is the eighteenth century, the background, which is admirably documented, is a plantation near a Caribbean shore, and the protagon ists are members of a family whose natural bents see saw between the patriarchal and the libidinous ...

Published: Saturday 15 February 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1428 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

ESPIONAGE AND TREASON: A British Secret Agent; In Defence of Sir Roger Casement; The Epic of the Amethyst; ..

... her own subject and the tension of the plot is often secondary. THE FACES OF LOVE (Faber. 15s.), by Mr. John Hearne, is a Caribbean novel in which, again, the physical and natural setting has an equal value with the people who live the story. This is a ...

Published: Saturday 11 May 1957
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1468 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

ESCAPE FROM P.O.W. CAMPS

... States provide us with the next two novels, the first of which is THE ISLAND PLAYERS (W. H. Allen. 12s. 6d.). It is about a Caribbean island (British and quaint) and a family of visiting actors (American and gifted). Miss Ilka Chase has been a distinguished ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1473 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

A BOOK OF MODERN POETRY: A New Poetry Selection; Letters of the 1745 Rising; and a Variety of Novels

... sad strangeness running through it. OF TREES AND THE SEA (Seeker and Warburg. 13s. 6d.) is an evocative book, bringing the Caribbean sights and sounds even to the reader who has never had the good fortune to visit those seas. It is mildly funny or, more ...

Published: Saturday 11 August 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1515 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review