The Geographical Magazine, February 1968, Vol XL (40) No 10: Cyprus; Sharks of Natal; Riga; Andalucia; Lapp Nomads; Kuala Lumpur

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

COVER: 'Sharks of Natal', 'Riga', 'Andalucia', 'Lap Nomads', 'Kuala Lumpur' and 'Cyprus'; a Cyprus goatherd (Picturepoint). Price 3s. 6d.

IN THIS ISSUE: A Modern French Revolution by Alan R. H. Baker (farm consolidation policy in France); Kuala Lumpur by Pao-Chun Tsou (the multi-racial capital of Malaysia); Water for Andalucia by Anne Bolt (irrigation scheme on the River Guadalquivir); Natal Defeats the Sharks by Jolyon Rhind (a campaign against a threat to South African beaches); Nomads of the Arctic by John Douglas (Lapps in their summer homes); Capital of Latvia by David Paton (a look at modern Riga); Island of Flowers by Hazel Thurston (a botanist in Cyprus); Churches of the Troodos (treasures of Byzantine art in the Cyprus mountains); Cyprus - 1968 by Kenneth Mackenzie (a survey of the island today).

ALSO: The World in Books, reviews by F. G. G. Carr, Sir Laurence Collier, F. D. Ommanney, D. J. Sinclair and John Abbott; Notes by Ptolemy.

THEMES: Cyprus and Byzantine art, the Baltic and Soviet Latvia, Spain, South Africa, the Sami of Lapland, Malaysia, French agriculture.

92 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.), Hazel Thurston, Kenneth Mackenzie, Alan R. H. Baker

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

Publication Date: 1968

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Used - Very Good