The Geographical Magazine, May 1968, Vol XL (40) No 13: Exiles from Tibet; Pacific Weather Station; Rumania; Aegean Islands; Rance tidal power

The Geographical Magazine, May 1968: Volume XL (40), Number 13. 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: 'Exiles from Tibet', 'Pacific Weather Station', 'Rumania' and 'Aegean Islands'; a procession of Tibetan monks, photograph by Adrian Cowell. Price 3s. 6d.

IN THIS ISSUE: Beyond the Forbidden Mountains by George Patterson (an episode in the struggle of the Tibetan patriots); Monastery Villages of Rumania by Clive Barda (treasures of the church in Moldavia); Power from the Tides by Lucien Barnier (effects of the Rance tidal dam at St Malo, Brittany); Forgotten Aegean Islands by Stephen Whitaker (living by the sea in the Northern Sporades); Expedition to Amazonas by Hovercraft by D. W. Soughan; Taming the Columbia River (mighty power-house of the North West); Weather Station on a South Sea Island by Edmund Jones (Raoul Island, 600 miles from New Zealand).

ALSO: The World in Books, reviews by Anthony Forge, Frank Carr, Stanley Cramp, David Paton, R. W. Steel, D. J. Sinclair and John Abbott; Notes by Ptolemy.

THEMES: Tibet and the Chinese occupation, Romanian painted monasteries, tidal energy, Greek islands, Amazon expeditions, hydro-electric power, meteorology, the Pacific.

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.), George Patterson, Clive Barda, Lucien Barnier

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

Publication Date: 1968

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Used - Very Good