Book reviews


Dreams of Rivers and Seas : Tim Parks

Tim Parks prefaces Dreams of Rivers and Seas with a message to his prospective readers: “Those familiar with [the anthropologist and linguist] Gregory Bateson and his work will realise that I have used elements from his life and writings to create the character of Albert James . . . Readers who want to find out about [Bateson's] remarkable work should certainly not consult these pages, which are entirely fictional.” Review