Samuel’s Slave

Caroline Moorehead

  • Lover on the Nile by Richard Hall
    Collins, 254 pp, £7.95, February 1980, ISBN 0 00 216471 X
  • Nellie: Letters from Africa by Elspeth Huxley
    Weidenfeld, 326 pp, £8.95, March 1980, ISBN 0 297 77706 8
  • Black Country Girl in Red China by Esther Cheo Ying
    Hutchinson, 191 pp, £5.95, January 1980, ISBN 0 09 139080 X

‘And do you think, Dame Freya,’ an interviewer once asked Freya Stark, ‘that travel broadens the mind?’ There was a pause. The explorer pondered; a distant, reflective gaze settled on her face. The young man sat back, well pleased to see his question taken so seriously: for a minute, he could have been forgiven for thinking he was onto a winner. At last it became clear that Dame Freya was about to pronounce. He lent forward, expectantly. ‘No,’ the clear voice enunciated with extreme finality. ‘No.’ There was nothing more to be said.

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