Blacks and Blues
E.S. Turner, 4 June 1987
Worlds Apart: Travels in War and Peace
by Gavin Young.
Hutchinson, 344 pp., £14.95, April 1987,0 09 168220 7 Show More
by Gavin Young.
Hutchinson, 344 pp., £14.95, April 1987,
“... most of the pleasures of civilisation except for Earl Grey tea. Thesiger’s life has been in the Buchan mould. It is true that, unlike Auberon Herbert (‘the man who was Greenmantle’), he was never pressed to accept a throne – he would certainly have declined even that of Albania – but he played a bold part in restoring his own favourite emperor to ... ”