The Geographical Magazine, February 1967, Vol XXXIX (39) No 10: Hovercraft in Canada's Far North; Bristol; Anti-Locust War in the Sahara; Gorizia; Salmon at Hell's Gate
The Geographical Magazine, February 1967, Vol XXXIX (39) No 10: Hovercraft in Canada's Far North; Bristol; Anti-Locust War in the Sahara; Gorizia; Salmon at Hell's Gate
The Geographical Magazine, February 1967: Volume XXXIX (39), 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: 'Modern Transport Opens Canada's Far North', 'Bristol', 'Anti-Locust Patrol' and 'Gorizia'; a hovercraft trial near Tuktoyaktuk, photograph by Dr N. Cooper. Price 3s. 6d.
EDITORIAL: Comment: 'A New Publication Required', on keeping geographical research within the layman's reach.
IN THIS ISSUE: Anti-Locust War in the Sahara by Stanley Baron (a modern effort to control an age-old pest); Peace on a Redrawn Frontier by F. B. Singleton (Italy, Yugoslavia and Gorizia); Bristol Fashion by Professor R. F. Peel (the Geography Today series); Bristol and its Future by A. E. Frey (the ambitions and fears of an ancient port); Salmon at Hell's Gate by F. T. K. Pentelow (the Fraser River disaster and the resulting problems); Transport in Canada's Far North by G. W. Rowley (harsh remote regions opened up for commerce); Solitary Map-Maker in Libya by Captain D. N. Hall (an army officer corrects a desert map); A New Perspective by Professor Maurice Beresford.
ALSO: The World in Books; Notes by Ptolemy; notes on contributors, photographs and maps.
THEMES: Arctic Canada and hovercraft, desert locusts and the Sahara, the Iron Curtain borderlands, Bristol, fisheries, cartography, historical geography.
80 pages, 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.), Maurice Beresford, F. B. Singleton, Stanley Baron
Publisher: The Geographical Magazine (Royal Geographical Society/The Times Publishing Company)
Publication Date: 1967
Binding: Single Issue Magazine
Condition: Used - Very Good