The Geographical Magazine, September 1965, Vol XXXVIII (38) No 5: Cambodia: Oasis of Peace; Heroic Masada by Yigael Yadin; Nottingham: Queen of the Midlands; Iron and Steel
The Geographical Magazine, September 1965: Volume XXXVIII (38), Number 5. 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: 'Cambodia: Oasis of Peace'; rice growing in Cambodia, photograph by Keith Buchanan. Cover price 3/6.
EDITORIAL: 'Population Control', on world population growth, food supply and new fertility drugs.
IN THIS ISSUE: Nottingham: Queen of the Midlands by Professor K. C. Edwards (the city's past and potential); Heroic Masada by Yigael Yadin (the excavation of Herod's fortress above the Dead Sea, scene of the Zealots' last stand against Rome: a modern adventure in archaeology); Cambodia: Oasis of Peace by Keith Buchanan (skill and vigilance keep a beautiful land free of war); Iron and Steel by John Davy (the making and makers of the modern world's essential metal); Geography Today: Liverpool Studies the Tropics by Professor Robert W. Steel.
ALSO: The World in Books, reviews by Stewart Perowne and Dorothy Middleton.
THEMES: archaeology, Israel and the Holy Land, Southeast Asia, Indochina before the war, English cities, industry and steelmaking, population, university geography.
80 pages (pp. 321-400 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.), Yigael Yadin, Keith Buchanan, K. C. Edwards
Publisher: The Geographical Magazine (Royal Geographical Society/The Times Publishing Company)
Publication Date: 1965
Binding: Single Issue Magazine
Condition: Used - Very Good