The Geographical Magazine, September 1966, Vol XXXIX (39) No 5: Senegal; Fraser River; Barcelona; The Wilson Diaries: Scott's first Antarctic voyage; Mountaineering Sheep; Flower Hunting in Crete
The Geographical Magazine, September 1966, Vol XXXIX (39) No 5: Senegal; Fraser River; Barcelona; The Wilson Diaries: Scott's first Antarctic voyage; Mountaineering Sheep; Flower Hunting in Crete
The Geographical Magazine, September 1966: Volume XXXIX (39), 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: 'Senegal', 'Fraser River Problems', 'Mountaineering Sheep' and 'Barcelona'; Yoff Airport, Dakar, photograph by Claude Huber. Price 3s. 6d.
EDITORIAL: 'The Surroundings of the Earth', announcing next month's space supplement by Sir Bernard Lovell of Jodrell Bank and John Maddox, editor of Nature.
IN THIS ISSUE: Westward the Fraser by D. W. Soughan (the future of British Columbia's great river); Gambia and Senegal: Senegambia? by R. J. Harrison Church (two states and the question of unity); Barcelona: City Transformed by Charles Owen; The Wilson Diaries by Ann Savours (extracts and paintings from Edward Wilson's record of Scott's first voyage to Antarctica); Mountaineering Sheep (the yearly trek across alpine passes in the Tyrol); Flower Hunting in Crete by David Paton; Teaching Geography: A New Look at Physical Geography by Michael Mott.
ALSO: The World in Books, reviews by Dorothy Middleton and Dr John Woods; obituaries of Professor E. G. R. Taylor and Professor C. A. O'Dell; a letter to the editor from Peter Scott; Honours for Geographers.
THEMES: West Africa, Canada, Spain, Antarctic exploration and Scott's Discovery expedition, the Alps, botany and Crete, geography teaching.
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.), Ann Savours, R. J. Harrison Church, Peter Scott
Publisher: The Geographical Magazine (Royal Geographical Society/The Times Publishing Company)
Publication Date: 1966
Binding: Single Issue Magazine
Condition: Used - Very Good