"Sauve Qui Peut" 1966 DURRELL, Lawrence The London Owl Company admired from a distance

admired from a distance

Drinking with Pepys is an unusual and elegant book

Crane Sugar Hill Dalton

of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession

covering the islands of Jamaica

"Sauve Qui Peut" 1966 DURRELL, Lawrence The London Owl Company admired from a distanceDURRELL, Lawrence [82] pp. Faber and Faber 1966 8 1 8" x 5 3 8" Nicolas Bentley drew the pictures Whatever wars there may be and whatever crises, there will still, please heaven, be the diplomatic corps, with its protocol and formalities and a field for humour which I have never seen better used than in these stories.' After a lifetime serving that most delightfully British of institutions, the Foreign Office, Antrobus can't resist musing over old