The Geographical Magazine, June 1967, Vol XL (40) No 2: Channel Tunnel; Free Men of Borneo; Cairo Reborn; Portuguese Guinea; Ostrich Farm; Nautiluses

The Geographical Magazine, June 1967: Volume XL (40), 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 Times Newspapers, with half of all dividends assigned to a fund for exploration and research.

COVER: 'Portuguese Guinea', 'Channel Tunnel', 'Ostrich Farm', 'Cairo Reborn', 'Nautiluses' and 'Free Men of Borneo'; Dyaks of Borneo on the river, photograph by Georges Bourdelon. Price 3s. 6d.

IN THIS ISSUE: Channel Tunnel - the Way Ahead by I. B. Thompson (coming changes for northern France); Timeless Capital of Egypt by Irene Beeson (the new Cairo); Ghost Town in the Sand (a losing battle with the desert); Living Fossil of the South Seas by V. C. Barber (in search of the Nautilus); Punans of the Borneo Forest (a tribe of nomadic hunters); City Living on a Fault by Robert Stoneley (could there be another San Francisco earthquake?); Progress in Portuguese Guinea by George Martelli (new life under an old regime); Ostrich Farming on the Karroo by J. V. Scott; Grass Roots of Geography by Royston Morgan.

ALSO: Book reviews by Frank Carr, Roger Pilkington, Keith Clayton, Walter Hingston and E. S. Simpson; The World in Books; Notes by Ptolemy.

THEMES: the Channel Tunnel and France, Egypt, Borneo and its peoples, marine biology, earthquakes and California, Portuguese Africa, South Africa, geography teaching.

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 Derek Weber (Associate Editor); published by Odhams Press for The Geographical Magazine Ltd, Long Acre, London.

Author: Derek Weber (Associate Editor), George Martelli, Irene Beeson, Robert Stoneley

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

Publication Date: 1967

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Used - Very Good