It was a good book when I read it in the 1970s, and it's a good book now. There are some lovely asides, some of which I picked up at the time (the character who is obviously a Hebrew, without that word ever being used; the casual racist disdain of the sophisticated Mediterranean types for the incomprehensible pale-skinned northern Europeans) and some of which I was able to get only now with help from the Internet (the Serabit el-Khadim inscriptions). The copy I had as a child had some beautiful internal illustrations by Richard Kennedy; unfortunately the more recent reprint that I have now has only the cover and chapter headers. It would be worth getting an old paperback for the sake of the art.
The Twenty-Two Letters, by Clive King
It was a good book when I read it in the 1970s, and it's a good book now. There are some lovely asides, some of which I picked up at the time (the character who is obviously a Hebrew, without that word ever being used; the casual racist disdain of the sophisticated Mediterranean types for the incomprehensible pale-skinned northern Europeans) and some of which I was able to get only now with help from the Internet (the Serabit el-Khadim inscriptions). The copy I had as a child had some beautiful internal illustrations by Richard Kennedy; unfortunately the more recent reprint that I have now has only the cover and chapter headers. It would be worth getting an old paperback for the sake of the art.
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The Departed
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Crash
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