Most books by Roy Chapman Andrews are interesting, but inexpensive. In his day he was a popular writer, and even early titles like Whale Hunting with Gun and Camera (!) and Camps and Trails in China are not too hard to find. Not so The New Conquest of Central Asia. As it is the record …
Tag: As my whimsy takes me
VN
Arthur Wilderson, who knows more about guns that almost anyone, reminded me that Vladimir Nabokov died 36 years ago this week. After I praised his English, more fluid and colloquial than his only rival as a non- native English- speaking novelist in the language (VN would have said American I think), Arthur agreed: “I was …
Separated at Birth?
The Magdalena Owlman by Nina McCabe, and Edward Gorey’s Doubtful Guest…