The Geographical Magazine, April 1966, Vol XXXVIII (38) No 12: Revival of Corsica; Mid-Atlantic Ridge; Pioneers in Canada's North; Tides and Britain; Pesticides; Man-made Lakes
The Geographical Magazine, April 1966, Vol XXXVIII (38) No 12: Revival of Corsica; Mid-Atlantic Ridge; Pioneers in Canada's North; Tides and Britain; Pesticides; Man-made Lakes
The Geographical Magazine, April 1966: Volume XXXVIII (38), Number 12. The illustrated London monthly of exploration, travel, peoples and places, jointly owned by a trust chaired by the President of the Royal Geographical Society and The Times Publishing Company, with half of all dividends assigned to a fund for exploration and research.
COVER (as published; removed from this copy): Cheetah, photograph by H. Holfinger (Frank Lane).
EDITORIAL: 'Support for Geographical Research', on the new research councils and grants for geographers.
IN THIS ISSUE: Health Problems of Man-made Lakes by Dr B. B. Waddy; The Revival of Corsica by Dr Ian Thompson; The Mid-Atlantic Rise by Charles H. Cotter (the world's greatest mountain range); Pioneers in Canada's North by Barbara Wace; Tides and Britain by Roger Pilkington; Extinction or Reprieve? by Dr L. Harrison Matthews (wildlife in an over-populated world); Pesticides: Dr Norman W. Moore on Pesticides and the Living Landscape by Robert L. Rudd.
ALSO: The World in Books, reviews by Douglas Botting and Charles Alston; a Times advertisement for the Churchill House of Commons portrait by Sir Oswald Birley.
THEMES: oceanography and plate tectonics, Arctic Canada, the Mediterranean, conservation and pesticides, tropical health, tides and coasts.
80 pages (pp. 881-960 of the volume's continuous pagination), illustrated in colour and black and white, about 18.5 x 25 cm. Edited by Lt-Col Walter Hingston; published by Odhams Press for The Geographical Magazine Ltd, Long Acre, London.
Author: Walter Hingston (ed.), Roger Pilkington, L. Harrison Matthews, Barbara Wace
Publisher: The Geographical Magazine (Royal Geographical Society/The Times Publishing Company)
Publication Date: 1966
Binding: Single Issue Magazine
Condition: Used - Acceptable
Condition Note: Cover has been removed by previous owner. Unfortunate, but all remaining pages are present and correct.