... And so to Africa and the almost incredible confusion of the groundnuts scheme, and then to the Argentine, then to the West Indies, and last of all to Korea. His book ends with the arrival of the British contingent on this troubled peninsula, and a d ...

... but had a much more curious origin, for his grandmother was the last Empress of China, and he had been brought up in the West Indies for all that, he was very beautiful, and had golden hair. He was thus a stranger to England, and could gaze at the ecce ...

... theatrical drama. How a young naval officer in the days of sailing-ships spent his life a.shore and afloat, fighting in the West Indies, falling in love with this young woman or that, sometimes more platonically, and sometimes less, how he quarrelled with ...

... mass of filaments or antennae which clutched the unhappy victim and dragged him away. This was mostly happening in the West Indies, but the peril came as near as the west coasts of Ireland, Scotland and Cornwall before the trouble came to an end (so that ...

... live tapes taken at the 1958 Newport Festival, which included some exceptional work by Miles Davis and Monk. But the West Indies are not devoid of their own music. Since 1945 the steel band, instrumented entirely by the tuning of the metal tops of empty ...

... their individual roles. An exciting newcomer to London's recording studios is trumpeter Shake Keane, who came from the West Indies some 10 years ago. In My Condition (SEG8140) is an EP of imagination and surprise, the title piece seemingly derived from ...

... Russian hat Pahura, the native girl Gauguin loved, as a lined old lady in 1930, sitting beside the painter's accordion. The West Indies at Lord's by Alan Ross (Eyre Spottis- woode 15s.) is a charming and exciting book written by my favourite cricket correspon ...

... 18s.) is of the less evident kind, and all too convincing. The ingredients are a young man who has lost his job in the West Indies, a girl, Anne, to whom he has got engaged and to whom he returns in search of replenishment and a fresh start, and Anne's ...

... The first is Charles Grave's Fourteen Islands in the Sun (Leslie Frewin 30s.) which is an up-to-date description of the West Indies, including hotels and a look at prices. This has all the virtues of a guide book, without the usual stodginess, and it is ...

... fill gaps in her own knowledge of what her son did, is as good a personal story of the time as one is likely to find. The West Indies by Christopher Nicole (Hutchin son 35s.) is an informative work for people who either seek to get away from it all, or who ...

... Like Fire (Pelham Books 25s.) is the account to date of a man who is perhaps the most sensational cricketer that even the West Indies has yet pro duced. There is a revealing photograph of Peter May look ing back in consternation not merely at a broken wicket ...