The Spectator - October 29, 2016

(Joyce) #1
Atlantic Ocean Floor by
Heinrich Beran, National
Geographic Magazine,
June 1968
Stephen Bayley — p44

Hermione Eyre finds that,
for certain inmates of the


Marshalsea, life was a merry
round of drinking, smoking


and shuttlecock


Stephen Robinson admires
some thoughtful new


reportage from Orania – the
Afrikaner ‘utopia’ on the


fringes of the Karoo


Maggie Fergusson pays


tribute to the courage and
conviction of Jan Morris,


perhaps the greatest
descriptive writer of her


time


Laura Gascoigne is


mesmerised by two Dutch
artists who failed to strike


gold in the Golden Age


Bryan Appleyard is
unnerved by the


conclusions of Werner
Herzog’s latest strange


masterpiece


James Delingpole wonders


whether Adam Curtis – the
thinking pseud’s David Icke



  • might actually be right


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