The Geographical Magazine, August 1967, Vol XL (40) No 4: Triumph of the Benguela Railway; Liverpool; Lonely Bouvet Island; Thailand's Hill Tribes; Gibraltar by Tim Severin
The Geographical Magazine, August 1967, Vol XL (40) No 4: Triumph of the Benguela Railway; Liverpool; Lonely Bouvet Island; Thailand's Hill Tribes; Gibraltar by Tim Severin
The Geographical Magazine, August 1967: Volume XL (40), Number 4. 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: 'Triumph of the Benguela Railway', 'Liverpool', 'Lonely Bouvet Island', 'Thailand's Hill Tribes' and 'Gibraltar'; photograph by Douglas Botting. Price 3s. 6d.
IN THIS ISSUE: Life in a Baltic Capital by John Massey Stewart (Vilnius, city of mixed culture); Triumph of the Benguela Railway by Douglas Botting (Central Africa's vital link with the West, Angola); Decision for Gibraltar by the explorer and writer Tim Severin (the Rock looks at its future, the year of the sovereignty referendum); The Tropics in London by P. C. Spensley (the Geography Today series); People of the Thai Mountains by Kenneth G. Webb (life among remote hill tribes); Lonely Bouvet Island by Edward Dickinson (volcanic peak in the South Atlantic); Vital Liverpool by Richard Lawton (the Merseyside scene); Heart of the North-West by Norman Cook (Liverpool, the regional capital).
ALSO: The World in Books, reviews by P. J. T. Barbary, Royston Morgan and C. I. Jackson; Notes by Ptolemy.
THEMES: Lithuania and the USSR, African railways and Angola, Gibraltar, Thailand, sub-Antarctic islands, Liverpool and Merseyside, tropical science.
96 pages, illustrated in colour and black and white, about 18.5 x 25 cm. Edited by Derek Weber (Editor); published by Odhams Press for The Geographical Magazine Ltd, Long Acre, London.
Author: Derek Weber (ed.), Tim Severin, Douglas Botting, John Massey Stewart
Publisher: The Geographical Magazine (Royal Geographical Society/The Times Publishing Company)
Publication Date: 1967
Binding: Single Issue Magazine
Condition: Used - Very Good