The Geographical Magazine, April 1968, Vol XL (40) No 12: Falkland Islands; Nomads of Tibesti; Soviet ice-floe base; Guaica Indians; Netherlands canals

The Geographical Magazine, April 1968: Volume XL (40), 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 Times Newspapers, with half of all dividends assigned to a fund for exploration and research.

COVER: 'Nomads of Tibesti', 'Ice-floe Base', 'Guaica Indians' and 'Falkland Islands'; penguins in the Falklands, photograph by Ian J. Strange. Price 3s. 6d.

IN THIS ISSUE: Seaways through the Netherlands by John Marshall (a journey by canal barge); Trek to the Tibesti Range by John Hinchingbrooke (filming in the Sahara's highest mountains, Chad); Children of the Moon by Ata Kando (life among the Guaica Indians of the Orinoco); Keepers of the Flame by A. C. Smith (the Geography Today series); Settlers in the Rain Forest by V. C. Robertson (pioneers on the land in Malaysia); Drifting over the Arctic by Yevgeni Tolstikov (the work of the Soviet polar ice stations); Lonely Falkland Islands by Ian J. Strange (home of seamen and sheep farmers in the South Atlantic).

ALSO: The World in Books, reviews by R. A. Skelton, A. T. Duncan, W. Gordon East, John Seymour, W. B. Fisher, Margaret Storrie, C. I. Jackson, D. J. Sinclair and John Abbott; Notes by Ptolemy.

THEMES: the Falklands and South Atlantic, the Sahara, Amazonia and Venezuela, Arctic science and the USSR, Malaysia, Dutch waterways.

80 pages, illustrated in colour and black and white, about 18.5 x 25 cm. Edited by Derek Weber (Editor); published by New Science Publications for The Geographical Magazine Ltd, 128 Long Acre, London.

Author: Derek Weber (ed.), Ian J. Strange, Ata Kando, Yevgeni Tolstikov

Publisher: The Geographical Magazine (Royal Geographical Society/The Times Publishing Company)

Publication Date: 1968

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Used - Very Good