The Geographical Magazine, October 1966, Vol XXXIX (39) No 6: Sledging in Greenland; Istanbul by Fitzroy Maclean; Secretive Zanzibar; Manaus; Hejaz Railway

The Geographical Magazine, October 1966: Volume XXXIX (39), Number 6. 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: 'Sledging in Greenland', 'Secretive Zanzibar', 'Istanbul Today', 'Manaus' Second Flowering' and 'Hejaz'; photograph by Mike Banks. Price 3s. 6d.

IN THIS ISSUE: Istanbul: Europe's Bridge to Asia by Fitzroy Maclean (urban expansion against the preservation of the ancient city); The Pilgrim Railway by William Carter (rebuilding the Hejaz Railway); Manaus by Douglas Botting (the Amazon city born on the rubber boom); The Worst Insect Pest by Dr B. B. Waddy (the blackfly and river blindness in Africa); Curtained Zanzibar by Alford Lawrence (an island economy threatened by isolation from mainland Africa); Sledges to Schweizerland by Mike Banks (husky teams of Kungmiut on a 180-mile expedition through East Greenland); Geography in Universities: from Sixth Form to University by L. H. Elliott.

ALSO: The World in Books, reviews by Peter Bradley and Peter Mott; notes on contributors, photographs and maps. The first issue in the new masthead design.

THEMES: Turkey, Arabia and pilgrimage, railways, Amazonia, tropical disease, East Africa, Arctic sledging expeditions, higher education.

96 pages, 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.), Fitzroy Maclean, Douglas Botting, Mike Banks

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

Publication Date: 1966

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Used - Very Good