The Geographical Magazine, July 1968, Vol XL (40) No 15: Brussels; Assassin forts of Iran; Cameroon railway; Pakistan wildlife; Common lands by W. G. Hoskins

The Geographical Magazine, July 1968: Volume XL (40), Number 15. 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: 'Assassin Forts', 'Cameroon Railway', 'Pakistan', 'Common Lands' and 'Brussels'; Port de Namur, Brussels, photograph by J. Quatannens (Camera Press). Price 3s. 6d.

IN THIS ISSUE: Pakistan Protects its Wildlife by the ornithologist Guy Mountfort (a last-minute reprieve for vanishing animals); The Transcameroonian by John I. Clarke (the importance of railway communications in West Africa); Lords and Commoners by W. G. Hoskins, historian of the English landscape (common lands in England and Wales); Walrus Hunters on the Bering Sea (danger signal for the Alaskan Eskimo); Assassins of Qa'in by Peter Willey (an expedition to the castles of the medieval Ismaili Assassins in a remote region of Iran); Brussels and the New Invasion by Barbara Wace (new European capital city).

ALSO: The World in Books, reviews by R. J. Harrison Church, G. R. Crone and John Abbott; Notes by Ptolemy.

THEMES: wildlife conservation and the WWF, West African railways, English landscape history, Arctic peoples, the Ismaili Assassins and Persian castles, Brussels and the EEC.

80 pages, illustrated in colour and black and white, about 18.5 x 25 cm. Edited by Derek Weber (Editor); published by New Science Publications for The Geographical Magazine Ltd, 128 Long Acre, London.

Author: Derek Weber (ed.), W. G. Hoskins, Guy Mountfort, Peter Willey

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

Publication Date: 1968

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Used - Very Good