The Geographical Magazine, May 1966, Vol XXXIX (39) No 1: Brazil's Giant Island; Guyana Arrives; Poorest Americans; Following the Foss Way; Wild Cats of Scotland

The Geographical Magazine, May 1966: Volume XXXIX (39), Number 1. 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: 'Brazil's Giant Island', 'Guyana Arrives', 'Poorest Americans', 'Following the Foss Way' and 'Wild Cats'; transport on Marajó, photograph by Douglas Botting. Price 3s. 6d.

EDITORIAL: 'Reality in Geographical Education', on teaching geography from the world outside the classroom.

IN THIS ISSUE: Following the Foss Way by Barrie St Clair McBride (the great lateral road of Roman Britain as it is today); University College, London by Professor W. R. Mead (the Geography Today series); Northern Sea Route by Dr Terence Armstrong (the discovery and exploitation of Russia's North-East Passage); Guyana - a New Nation in South America by Professor A. Nunn (an independent British Guiana, its problems and potential riches); Brazil's Giant Island by Douglas Botting (Marajó, the world's largest river island, Amazon delta); The Poorest Americans by Michael Teague (aid for remote communities in Alaska); Wild Cats of Scotland by Geoffrey Kinns (fierce survivors in the Highlands).

ALSO: The World in Books, reviews by Professor Charles A. Fisher, Walter Bouverie and Robert Entrick.

THEMES: Roman Britain, Arctic shipping and the USSR, decolonisation, Brazil and the Amazon, Alaska, Scottish wildlife, geography teaching.

80 pages (pp. 1-80 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.), Douglas Botting, Terence Armstrong, W. R. Mead

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

Publication Date: 1966

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Used - Very Good