The Geographical Magazine, December 1965, Vol XXXVIII (38) No 8: Queen Salote's Islands; Turkey's Remotest Province; The New Warsaw; Westminster Abbey 900th anniversary; Ski-ing in Spain; Lightning

The Geographical Magazine, December 1965, Vol XXXVIII (38) No 8: Queen Salote's Islands; Turkey's Remotest Province; The New Warsaw; Westminster Abbey 900th anniversary; Ski-ing in Spain; Lightning

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The Geographical Magazine, December 1965, Vol XXXVIII (38) No 8: Queen Salote's Islands; Turkey's Remotest Province; The New Warsaw; Westminster Abbey 900th anniversary; Ski-ing in Spain; Lightning
  • The Geographical Magazine, December 1965, Vol XXXVIII (38) No 8: Queen Salote's Islands; Turkey's Remotest Province; The New Warsaw; Westminster Abbey 900th anniversary; Ski-ing in Spain; Lightning
  • The Geographical Magazine, December 1965, Vol XXXVIII (38) No 8: Queen Salote's Islands; Turkey's Remotest Province; The New Warsaw; Westminster Abbey 900th anniversary; Ski-ing in Spain; Lightning
The Geographical Magazine, December 1965, Vol XXXVIII (38) No 8: Queen Salote's Islands; Turkey's Remotest Province; The New Warsaw; Westminster Abbey 900th anniversary; Ski-ing in Spain; Lightning

The Geographical Magazine, December 1965, Vol XXXVIII (38) No 8: Queen Salote's Islands; Turkey's Remotest Province; The New Warsaw; Westminster Abbey 900th anniversary; Ski-ing in Spain; Lightning

€9.99

The Geographical Magazine, December 1965: Volume XXXVIII (38), Number 8. 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): Lightning, photograph from Brown Boveri, Baden, Switzerland.

EDITORIAL: 'The City Region', on Patrick Geddes's 'conurbation' and Professor M. J. Wise's call for a new institute to study city-region geography.

IN THIS ISSUE: Ski-ing in Spain by Mike Banks (holiday resorts in the sierras); Queen Salote's Islands by Mary Critchley (the independent Kingdom of Tonga); Lightning by Frank W. Lane (explanations and advice about a tremendous phenomenon); The New Warsaw by David Williamson (rebuilding the old city and a new one); Turkey's Remotest Province by Robin Fedden (the isolated Kurdish people of south-east Turkey); The Abbey by Harold F. Hutchison (the 900th anniversary of Westminster Abbey); Travellers' Tales: Alanya by A. J. R. Pereira.

ALSO: The World in Books, reviews by Prebendary P. N. Gilliat and John Wyatt; 'Next Month' preview of the Vinland Map issue.

THEMES: Polynesia and Tonga, post-war Poland, Kurdistan, Spain, meteorology, London history, urban geography, travel.

80 pages (pp. 561-640 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.), Robin Fedden, Mary Critchley, Frank W. Lane

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

Publication Date: 1965

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.

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