... writer who has set his fiction and has lived his life against a wide range of backgrounds, who in an adventurous career has sailed round the Horn, travelled 7,000 miles in Africa, worked in the Fleet Street of Lord Northcliffe, and contested an elec tion ...

... Crosic. It 's little fishing town, quite un- spoi's, where you can never tire of looking at the smacks with their love blue sails coming in with their atch. Then, you must try the itffres, or waffles, they make there which are like wafer-thin pancakes and ...

... dence there was the hay to be brought in, and picnics in the Pottle Wood, and Falcon to be painted and launched, and then sailed on Donaweale. There was a batch of bullocks to be sold (they didn't do too badly, either), and a sale to be negotiated of ...