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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 December 1974Vol. 45, No. 12

Paperbacks for your

p. 70 · Read in the full issue

Christmas holidays

Here’s a selection of recent paperbacks available in the Islands in time for Christmas:

Yoga For Health And

BEAUTY (Pan, $1.80). Exercise yourself to death instead of drink ing yourself to death with Joan Gould’s precise text and clear

photographs.

KEN Y ATT A (Fontana, $2.75).

Carefully researched, fully-docu mented account of the life and times of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya’s first President, by Jeremy Murray- Brown.

Whats Happening To

OUR CHILDREN? (Fontana, $1.50). Anthony Bullen, Roman Catholic Director of Religious Education for the archdiocese of Liverpool, England, addresses this one to parents and teachers of older children, and discusses the generation gap. To bridge it, he says, we all need to examine our

basic principles.

Gazetteer Of Scottish

GHOSTS (Fontana, $1.25).

Christmas is ghost-story time, so here Peter Underwood, president

of the Ghost Club (founded 1862, would you believe?) records ghosts and ghostly happenings in more than 100 places throughout Scotland. Old ghosts and modern ghosts. With a useful index.

Tarzan Of The Apes

(Pan, $4.30). A paperback, des pite its large format and large price. Here is Edgar Rice Bur roughs’ famous character in comic strip form again by illus trator Burne Hogarth, who first began to draw Tarzan in 1936, and has recently been persuaded to re-illustrate the famous tales in this new clear and colourful

version. Surprisingly fascinating,

especially to adult kids.

Dream Power (Pan $1.50).

Dr Ann Faraday, with a PhD on sleep and dreaming, takes a seri ous look at dreams and dreaming, during which she offers some ad vice on how to dream to some purpose.

Pan and Fontana titles are both published by William Collins Ltd , whose Sydney address is Box 476

Gpo.