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Between the Sahara Desert's ocean of drifting sands on the north and Kipling's "great, grey-green, greasy" Limpopo River in this land unknown were geographical wonders to rival any in the world: great lakes as large as those in North America, rivers challenging in majesty the...
Tony Yates hits the Ophir River country when it is clearly the place to separate the men from the boys; the reader may find difficulty in separating the men from the animals. Tony stakes out free land (having deceived a government surveyors' party as to just where water was...
Author Mary McMinnies, herself a charter mem-sahib (as wife of a Foreign Service official in Malaya), has a cold Waugh eye and ear for colonial types. The U.S. reader, however, cutting his way through the alphabet jungles of British officialese, should know that D.O.M. does not stand for some...
When Britain's King Edward VII asked a "pretty young lady" to partner him at bridge, she declined, saying sweetly: "I am afraid, Sir, I can't even tell a King from a Knave." Most of Edward's biographers have had the same trouble: none has satisfactorily...
The operations commander. Sir Ian Hamilton, one of the "long tradition of British poet-generals," spoke to his men of Hector and Achilles; his chief of staff shaved each day before battle with Kipling's // propped up beside his mirror. Poet-Soldier Rupert Brooke (who was felled by sunstroke...