Books, Arts & Manners: Random Notes

Left Over from December: Shackleton: His Antarctic Writings (Peter Bedrick/ Harper & Row, $22.50), edited by Christopher Railing, is an engaging volume consisting of excerpts from the English explorer’s books, poems, and letters chosen by the author of the television series Shackleton.

Robert Burns: An Illustrated Biography (Peter Bedrick/Harper & Row, $16.95), by Ian Grimble, represents a solid contribution to Burns literature, as well as to the social history of middle-class Scotland in the eighteenth century.

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Left Over from December: Shackleton: His Antarctic Writings (Peter Bedrick/ Harper & Row, $22.50), edited by Christopher Railing, is an engaging volume consisting of excerpts from the English explorer’s books, poems, and letters chosen by the author of the television series Shackleton.

Robert Burns: An Illustrated Biography (Peter Bedrick/Harper & Row, $16.95), by Ian Grimble, represents a solid contribution to Burns literature, as well as to the social history of middle-class Scotland in the eighteenth century.