Television: Mar. 19, 1965

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THE ORDWAYS, by William Humphrey. In fine Southern rhetoric, Author Humphrey tells of the Ordways, who made it on foot from Tennessee to East Texas, and whose children recount a comic oral history of their journey and its fruits.

HAKLUYT'S VOYAGES, edited by Irwin Blacker. The highlights of Richard Hakluyt's amazing compendium of travel diaries, letters and essays, all of which eloquently chronicle Elizabethan England's rise from seagirt obscurity to world power.

MERIWETHER LEWIS, by Richard Dillon. The lively tale of the explorer who charted the American frontier but died in alcoholic ruin a few years after his triumph.

THE WHITSUN WEDDINGS, by Philip Larkin. Crystalline images and insights are distilled from commonplace circumstances by the reticent librarian whose spare, introspective lines have won him a reputation as Britain's finest contemporary poet.

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