Superior Persons
E.S. Turner, 6 February 1986
Travels with a Superior Person
by Lord Curzon, edited by Peter King.
Sidgwick, 191 pp., £12.95, October 1985,0 283 99294 8 Show More
by Lord Curzon, edited by Peter King.
Sidgwick, 191 pp., £12.95, October 1985,
The Ladies of Castlebrae
by A. Whigham Price.
Alan Sutton, 242 pp., £10.95, October 1985,0 86299 228 1 Show More
by A. Whigham Price.
Alan Sutton, 242 pp., £10.95, October 1985,
Lizzie: A Victorian Lady’s Amazon Adventure
by Tony Morrison, Anne Brown and Ann Rose.
BBC, 160 pp., £9.95, November 1985,0 563 20424 9 Show More
by Tony Morrison, Anne Brown and Ann Rose.
BBC, 160 pp., £9.95, November 1985,
Miss Fane in India
by [author], edited by John Pemble.
Alan Sutton, 246 pp., £10.95, October 1985,0 86299 240 0 Show More
by [author], edited by John Pemble.
Alan Sutton, 246 pp., £10.95, October 1985,
Explorers Extraordinary
by John Keay.
Murray/BBC Publications, 195 pp., £10.95, November 1985,0 7195 4249 9 Show More
by John Keay.
Murray/BBC Publications, 195 pp., £10.95, November 1985,
A Visit to Germany, Italy and Malta 1840-41
by Hans Christian Andersen, translated by Grace Thornton.
Peter Owen, 182 pp., £12.50, October 1985,0 7206 0636 5 Show More
by Hans Christian Andersen, translated by Grace Thornton.
Peter Owen, 182 pp., £12.50, October 1985,
The Irish Sketch-Book 1842
by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Blackstaff, 368 pp., £9.95, December 1985,0 85640 340 7 Show More
by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Blackstaff, 368 pp., £9.95, December 1985,
Mr Rowlandson’s England
by Robert Southey, edited by John Steel.
Antique Collectors’ Club, 202 pp., £14.95, November 1985,0 907462 77 4 Show More
by Robert Southey, edited by John Steel.
Antique Collectors’ Club, 202 pp., £14.95, November 1985,
“... whether to introduce ‘some bursts of fine writing’, an indulgence best left to Viceroys. John Keay, the drily witty author of Travellers Extraordinary (and, earlier, Eccentric Travellers), comes as a timely model of concision. His heroes are the coxcombs and humbugs of travel, or pretended travel. The best-known is Louis de Rougemont, alias ... ”
