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R. M. LOCKLEY has written a number of books dealing with natural history and life on lonely islands, but he has never written a better book than this. I do not mean that there is a greater wealth of accurate observation in this book: I refer rather to the style. The English is admirable; it is simple and direct, very vivid and holding the reader's attention from first page to last. It is indeed a book worthy of the most celebrated masters of modern English prose—Masefield would surely read it with pleasure.
The Way to an Island
By R. M. Lockley. (Travellers' Tales.) Pp. xi + 208 + 16 plates. (London: J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., 1941.) 7s. 6d. net.
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GORDON, S. The Way to an Island. Nature 147, 524 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147524a0
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