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Conquerors of Time by Trevor Fishlock, John Murray, £25, ISBN 0719555175 Reviewed by Roy Herbert

SCANNING the chapter headlines of The Conquerors of Time will not tell you much about its contents. They include: “With dauntless feet”, “Posh”, and so on. But plunge in and you will find yourself carried away with the excitement of the pioneers of what Trevor Fishlock calls “exploration in the broadest sense”.

Fishlock was a distinguished foreign correspondent for The Times and The Daily Telegraph and on all his travels was acutely aware of the adventure, invention, the labour and the costs of success and…

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