The Geographical Magazine, June 1966, Vol XXXIX (39) No 2: South Arabia; Inside China; Orkneys by Jo Grimond; Bechuanaland by Naomi Mitchison; World Cup 1966 by Sir Stanley Rous

The Geographical Magazine, June 1966: Volume XXXIX (39), Number 2. 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: 'South Arabia', 'Inside China', 'Civilized Orkneys' and 'Thirsty Bakgatla of Bechuanaland'; a tribesman of Southern Arabia, photograph by J. C. Newby. Price 3s. 6d.

EDITORIAL: 'Large-Scale Maps', on the Ordnance Survey's 1:1250 and 1:2500 plans and the £10 million catch-up.

IN THIS ISSUE: Spiders of the Karroo by Eve Palmer (South Africa's giant insects); South of the Empty Quarter by J. C. Newby (a precarious peace in Southern Arabia); My Own Tribe by Naomi Mitchison (the Bakgatla people of Bechuanaland, now Botswana); The Orkneys by the Rt Hon J. Grimond MP (Jo Grimond on islands with a difference); Association Football - a World Power Game by Sir Stanley Rous (England plays host for the 1966 World Cup); Yellow Fever by Dr B. B. Waddy; In China Today - Sian by Euphan Hanbury-Tenison (Xi'an, provincial capital of the new China); Travellers' Tales: Two Lost Villages by Roger A. Redfern (ghost towns in Wales).

ALSO: The World in Books, reviews by Peter Bradley, George Pleydell, Robin Hallett and T. R. Tregear.

THEMES: Southern Arabia, southern Africa, Scotland's islands, football and the 1966 World Cup, Maoist China, tropical medicine, mapping and the Ordnance Survey, Wales.

80 pages (pp. 81-160 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.), Naomi Mitchison, Jo Grimond, Sir Stanley Rous

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

Publication Date: 1966

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Used - Very Good