The Geographical Magazine, January 1966, Vol XXXVIII (38) No 9: The Vinland Map; Norse Atlantic Voyagers; Pitcairn's New Mutineers?; Fabled Shiraz; Plymouth's Dilemma; Helge Ingstad; Gwyn Jones

The Geographical Magazine, January 1966: Volume XXXVIII (38), Number 9. 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: 'Fabled Shiraz', 'Plymouth's Dilemma', 'The Vinland Map', 'Norse Atlantic Voyagers' and 'Pitcairn's New Mutineers?'; Pitcairn islanders photographed by Arne Falk-Rønne. Price 3s. 6d.

EDITORIAL: 'Geography - Science and Adventure', announcing that The Wide World Magazine is incorporated in The Geographical Magazine from this issue.

IN THIS ISSUE: First Discovery of America by Professor Gwyn Jones (the Norse voyages); The Search for Vinland, researches by Helge Ingstad (the Norse site at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland); The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation by R. A. Skelton (the Yale map controversy); Pitcairn's New Mutineers? by Arne Falk-Rønne (descendants of the Bounty mutineers); Plymouth's Dilemma by Crispin Gill (the future of the historic seaport); Fabled Shiraz by Neville Hinton (Persia's city of poets today); Crayfishers of West Australia by Winston McNamara; Geography Today: Survey for Development by T. D. Weatherhead.

ALSO: The World in Books, reviews by Peter Bradley and Elizabeth Lewis.

THEMES: Vikings and Norse exploration, cartography and map history, the Bounty and Pitcairn Island, Iran, Devon, Australia, development surveying.

80 pages (pp. 641-720 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.), Helge Ingstad, Gwyn Jones, R. A. Skelton

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

Publication Date: 1966

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Used - Very Good