MISCELLANY

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28268, 4 May 1957, Page 3

MISCELLANY

toa< ——— 'asifrcßtiire Unlimited. By Harol in? Waters. Hutchinsons. 184 j _ e g Harold Waters, a New 7 feder, has made the United Coast Guard service his se A ? ser. He relates his expertt of 20 years’ work on icepatrols, chasing bootleggers, for survivors from and war-time duties in a iselEy readable and informative bfkaner. Woven into his own exwneuces is the story of the for-te-ion of the International IceKF! Patrol, the tactics of bootlegMg* during prohibition and some observations on nowrecks, such as that of gW ill-fated Vestris. The book WB ;; be well recommended. |m Naturalist in Palestine. By Kg Victor Howells. Andrew Mel--172 pp - studying marine life in BMP Africa Mr Howells met a Sfc®* naturalist. Some months f* tW ° j° ined forces to go Bft? field expedition to what was Palestine. This book is an By? their adventures and Endings among the flora 1 jjf/auna of what is apparently a endowed region. A natu- , nfen® 15 always an interesting , U'jb l^ an l on . To him life is varied ed w ith excitement and f w3ter * wo naturalists should be . aX Howells, who writes j ank- can make a good storj- i i a ® g ht between a tarantula ; Scorpion, or the struggle of < ’ 4? b* ? in arid surroundings, 1 i same time does not s iwSL . at the £ enera l reader is 1 in the human * j C x 'ment of this troubled area. lee B y Warren Arm- I net-. rytrng Frederick Muller, \ S? °« w a»<l-oealy. 239 pp. c “ » very wide field for ’ '"Wat .t® “ e stories of missing „ enjoin, and marine dis- t x-j, L This is the third such * .JPR* 31 in recent months. M iliar r Ol6 Tories are now t lei’ but others are not so k Th® sea and its a rfey "*1 make a fascinating n jd Mr Armstrong is j wlde interest in his n folk not only from sea ' p o