The Geographical Magazine, February 1965, Vol XXXVII (37) No 10: Grenfell of Labrador; A Woman in Outer Mongolia by Veronica Maclean; Mauritania; South Sandwich Islands; New Towers of London
The Geographical Magazine, February 1965, Vol XXXVII (37) No 10: Grenfell of Labrador; A Woman in Outer Mongolia by Veronica Maclean; Mauritania; South Sandwich Islands; New Towers of London
The Geographical Magazine, February 1965: Volume XXXVII (37), Number 10. 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: Survey on Christmas Island, photograph by C. J. C. Wynne-Edwards. Cover price 3/6.
EDITORIAL: 'The Natural Environment Research Council', on the proposed body that would bring together the National Institute of Oceanography, the Geological Survey, the Nature Conservancy and the Hydrology Research Unit.
IN THIS ISSUE: Grenfell of Labrador by J. B. Carson (Sir Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary); A Woman in Outer Mongolia by Veronica Maclean (modernised cities and the untouched steppes); Mauritania by Tim Brierly (the Islamic republic and its mountain of iron ore); Islands of Ice and Fire by C. J. C. Wynne-Edwards (the volcanic South Sandwich Islands); New Towers of London, text by David Crease, photographs by Kerry Dundas (1960s skyscrapers); Travellers' Tales: Journey to Jerez by Julian Jeffs (sherry country, Andalusia).
ALSO: The World in Books, reviews by Dorothy Middleton, Walter Bouverie and Edward Pyatt.
THEMES: exploration history, Labrador, Mongolia, West Africa, Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands, architecture of London, wine, Spain, environmental science.
80 pages (pp. 721-800 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 The Geographical Magazine Ltd, 91 St Martin's Lane, London.
Author: Walter Hingston (ed.), Veronica Maclean, J. B. Carson, C. J. C. Wynne-Edwards
Publisher: The Geographical Magazine (Royal Geographical Society/The Times Publishing Company)
Publication Date: 1965
Binding: Single Issue Magazine
Condition: Used - Very Good