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“... remarkable for tolerance. Nor is there any mention of anything more than incidental criticism in Maurice Collis, whose The Grand Peregrination, first written in 1949 and now republished, is a valuable abridgment of Pinto’s book (Peregrinçam in Portuguese), the first in English since 1891. Collis was a distinguished ...”

“... that her dead collaborator had a hand in the books that appeared (under both names) after 1915. Maurice Collis, who published a biography of Somerville and Ross in 1968, took the line that such closeness could only have come about as a result of a lesbian attachment between the cousins – a supposition very sensibly refuted by Gifford Lewis, who ...”

“... with permanent disgrace, I do not know and have not read of.’ A comic classic, Foreign Mud by Maurice Collis, tells the story, but in China the Opium War is not funny. The veteran director Xie Jin’s new $12 million blockbuster (the budget was raised in Shanghai) modelled, he says, on Schindler’s List, eulogises Beijing’s heroic ...”