The Geographical Magazine, March 1966, Vol XXXVIII (38) No 11: Leningrad; Desert Rescue; War in Kurdistan; Jungle Cattle Trail; Amazon Gold Rush; Stewart Perowne

The Geographical Magazine, March 1966: Volume XXXVIII (38), Number 11. 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: 'Desert Rescue', 'War in Kurdistan', 'Jungle Cattle Trail', 'Amazon Gold' and 'Leningrad'; Petrodvorets palace gardens near Leningrad, photograph by Mavis Ronson (Picturepoint). Price 3s. 6d.

EDITORIAL: 'The Waters under the Earth', on aquifers and Britain's water supply, the Thames Conservancy and the Great Ouse scheme.

IN THIS ISSUE: Amazon Gold Rush by Mike Andrews (an unlikely eldorado in the jungle); Geography in a New University by Professor T. H. Elkins (the Geography Today series); Jungle Cattle Trail by Stanley E. Brock (cutting a cattle trail through almost impenetrable forest); Desert Rescue by James Wellard (RAF volunteer rescue teams in the country of the Tuareg); By Train to Moscow (a railway journey behind the Iron Curtain); War in Kurdistan by James Shotter; Russia's Window on the West by Stewart Perowne (Leningrad, city of Peter the Great, Catherine and Lenin); The Threat of Bilharzia by V. de V. Clarke.

ALSO: The World in Books, reviews by T. R. Tregear and Elizabeth Lewis.

THEMES: the Soviet Union and the Cold War, the Kurds, the Sahara, Amazonia, tropical disease, water resources, university geography.

80 pages (pp. 801-880 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.), Stewart Perowne, Stanley E. Brock, James Wellard

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

Publication Date: 1966

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Used - Very Good