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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. Comes in original slip case, that has some fading. Illustrated (illustrator).

Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 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.…

Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Fair. The Geographical Magazine, December 1965: Volume XXXVIII (38), Number 8. 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 (as published; removed from this copy): Lightning, photograph from Brown Boveri, Baden, Switzerland. EDITORIAL: 'The City Region', on Patrick Geddes's 'conurbation' and Professor M. J. Wise's call for a new institute to study city-region geography. IN THIS ISSUE: Ski-ing in Spain by Mike Banks (holiday resorts in the sierras); Queen Salote's Islands by Mary Critchley (the independent Kingdom of Tonga); Lightning by Frank W. Lane (explanations and advice about a tremendous phenomenon); The New Warsaw by David Williamson (rebuilding the old city and a new one); Turkey's Remotest Province by Robin Fedden (the isolated Kurdish people of south-east Turkey); The Abbey by Harold F. Hutchison (the 900th anniversary of Westminster Abbey); Travellers' Tales: Alanya by A. J. R. Pereira. ALSO: The World in Books, reviews by Prebendary P. N. Gilliat and John Wyatt; 'Next Month' preview of the Vinland Map issue. THEMES: Polynesia and Tonga, post-war Poland, Kurdistan, Spain, meteorology, London history, urban geography, travel. 80 pages (pp. 561-640 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.), Robin Fedden, Mary Critchley, Frank W. Lane Publisher: The Geographical Magazine (Royal Geographical Society/The Times Publishing Company) Publication Date: 1965 Binding: Single Issue Magazine Condition: Used - Acceptable Condition Note: Cover has been removed by previous owner. Unfortunate, but all remaining pages are present and correct.…

Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The Geographical Magazine, February 1965: Volume XXXVII (37), Number 10. 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: Survey on Christmas Island, photograph by C. J. C. Wynne-Edwards. Cover price 3/6. EDITORIAL: 'The Natural Environment Research Council', on the proposed body that would bring together the National Institute of Oceanography, the Geological Survey, the Nature Conservancy and the Hydrology Research Unit. IN THIS ISSUE: Grenfell of Labrador by J. B. Carson (Sir Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary); A Woman in Outer Mongolia by Veronica Maclean (modernised cities and the untouched steppes); Mauritania by Tim Brierly (the Islamic republic and its mountain of iron ore); Islands of Ice and Fire by C. J. C. Wynne-Edwards (the volcanic South Sandwich Islands); New Towers of London, text by David Crease, photographs by Kerry Dundas (1960s skyscrapers); Travellers' Tales: Journey to Jerez by Julian Jeffs (sherry country, Andalusia). ALSO: The World in Books, reviews by Dorothy Middleton, Walter Bouverie and Edward Pyatt. THEMES: exploration history, Labrador, Mongolia, West Africa, Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands, architecture of London, wine, Spain, environmental science. 80 pages (pp. 721-800 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 The Geographical Magazine Ltd, 91 St Martin's Lane, London. Author: Walter Hingston (ed.), Veronica Maclean, J. B. Carson, C. J. C. Wynne-Edwards Publisher: The Geographical Magazine (Royal Geographical Society/The Times Publishing Company) Publication Date: 1965 Binding: Single Issue Magazine Condition: Used - Very Good.…

Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 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.…

Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 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.…

Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The Geographical Magazine, March 1966: Volume XXXVIII (38), Number 11. 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: 'Desert Rescue', 'War in Kurdistan', 'Jungle Cattle Trail', 'Amazon Gold' and 'Leningrad'; Petrodvorets palace gardens near Leningrad, photograph by Mavis Ronson (Picturepoint). Price 3s. 6d. EDITORIAL: 'The Waters under the Earth', on aquifers and Britain's water supply, the Thames Conservancy and the Great Ouse scheme. IN THIS ISSUE: Amazon Gold Rush by Mike Andrews (an unlikely eldorado in the jungle); Geography in a New University by Professor T. H. Elkins (the Geography Today series); Jungle Cattle Trail by Stanley E. Brock (cutting a cattle trail through almost impenetrable forest); Desert Rescue by James Wellard (RAF volunteer rescue teams in the country of the Tuareg); By Train to Moscow (a railway journey behind the Iron Curtain); War in Kurdistan by James Shotter; Russia's Window on the West by Stewart Perowne (Leningrad, city of Peter the Great, Catherine and Lenin); The Threat of Bilharzia by V. de V. Clarke. ALSO: The World in Books, reviews by T. R. Tregear and Elizabeth Lewis. THEMES: the Soviet Union and the Cold War, the Kurds, the Sahara, Amazonia, tropical disease, water resources, university geography. 80 pages (pp. 801-880 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.), Stewart Perowne, Stanley E. Brock, James Wellard Publisher: The Geographical Magazine (Royal Geographical Society/The Times Publishing Company) Publication Date: 1966 Binding: Single Issue Magazine Condition: Used - Very Good.…

Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 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.…

Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The Geographical Magazine, January 1966: Volume XXXVIII (38), Number 9. 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: 'Fabled Shiraz', 'Plymouth's Dilemma', 'The Vinland Map', 'Norse Atlantic Voyagers' and 'Pitcairn's New Mutineers?'; Pitcairn islanders photographed by Arne Falk-Rønne. Price 3s. 6d. EDITORIAL: 'Geography - Science and Adventure', announcing that The Wide World Magazine is incorporated in The Geographical Magazine from this issue. IN THIS ISSUE: First Discovery of America by Professor Gwyn Jones (the Norse voyages); The Search for Vinland, researches by Helge Ingstad (the Norse site at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland); The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation by R. A. Skelton (the Yale map controversy); Pitcairn's New Mutineers? by Arne Falk-Rønne (descendants of the Bounty mutineers); Plymouth's Dilemma by Crispin Gill (the future of the historic seaport); Fabled Shiraz by Neville Hinton (Persia's city of poets today); Crayfishers of West Australia by Winston McNamara; Geography Today: Survey for Development by T. D. Weatherhead. ALSO: The World in Books, reviews by Peter Bradley and Elizabeth Lewis. THEMES: Vikings and Norse exploration, cartography and map history, the Bounty and Pitcairn Island, Iran, Devon, Australia, development surveying. 80 pages (pp. 641-720 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.), Helge Ingstad, Gwyn Jones, R. A. Skelton Publisher: The Geographical Magazine (Royal Geographical Society/The Times Publishing Company) Publication Date: 1966 Binding: Single Issue Magazine Condition: Used - Very Good.…

Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Fair. The Geographical Magazine, April 1966: Volume XXXVIII (38), Number 12. 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 (as published; removed from this copy): Cheetah, photograph by H. Holfinger (Frank Lane). EDITORIAL: 'Support for Geographical Research', on the new research councils and grants for geographers. IN THIS ISSUE: Health Problems of Man-made Lakes by Dr B. B. Waddy; The Revival of Corsica by Dr Ian Thompson; The Mid-Atlantic Rise by Charles H. Cotter (the world's greatest mountain range); Pioneers in Canada's North by Barbara Wace; Tides and Britain by Roger Pilkington; Extinction or Reprieve? by Dr L. Harrison Matthews (wildlife in an over-populated world); Pesticides: Dr Norman W. Moore on Pesticides and the Living Landscape by Robert L. Rudd. ALSO: The World in Books, reviews by Douglas Botting and Charles Alston; a Times advertisement for the Churchill House of Commons portrait by Sir Oswald Birley. THEMES: oceanography and plate tectonics, Arctic Canada, the Mediterranean, conservation and pesticides, tropical health, tides and coasts. 80 pages (pp. 881-960 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.), Roger Pilkington, L. Harrison Matthews, Barbara Wace Publisher: The Geographical Magazine (Royal Geographical Society/The Times Publishing Company) Publication Date: 1966 Binding: Single Issue Magazine Condition: Used - Acceptable Condition Note: Cover has been removed by previous owner. Unfortunate, but all remaining pages are present and correct.…

Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The Geographical Magazine, February 1967: Volume XXXIX (39), Number 10. 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: 'Modern Transport Opens Canada's Far North', 'Bristol', 'Anti-Locust Patrol' and 'Gorizia'; a hovercraft trial near Tuktoyaktuk, photograph by Dr N. Cooper. Price 3s. 6d. EDITORIAL: Comment: 'A New Publication Required', on keeping geographical research within the layman's reach. IN THIS ISSUE: Anti-Locust War in the Sahara by Stanley Baron (a modern effort to control an age-old pest); Peace on a Redrawn Frontier by F. B. Singleton (Italy, Yugoslavia and Gorizia); Bristol Fashion by Professor R. F. Peel (the Geography Today series); Bristol and its Future by A. E. Frey (the ambitions and fears of an ancient port); Salmon at Hell's Gate by F. T. K. Pentelow (the Fraser River disaster and the resulting problems); Transport in Canada's Far North by G. W. Rowley (harsh remote regions opened up for commerce); Solitary Map-Maker in Libya by Captain D. N. Hall (an army officer corrects a desert map); A New Perspective by Professor Maurice Beresford. ALSO: The World in Books; Notes by Ptolemy; notes on contributors, photographs and maps. THEMES: Arctic Canada and hovercraft, desert locusts and the Sahara, the Iron Curtain borderlands, Bristol, fisheries, cartography, historical geography. 80 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.), Maurice Beresford, F. B. Singleton, Stanley Baron Publisher: The Geographical Magazine (Royal Geographical Society/The Times Publishing Company) Publication Date: 1967 Binding: Single Issue Magazine Condition: Used - Very Good.…

Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The Geographical Magazine, February 1966: Volume XXXVIII (38), Number 10. 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: 'Russians in Antarctica', 'Truculent Turkanas of Lake Rudolf', 'Animal Immigrants' and 'Arctic Tourists'; the Soviet ship Estonia reaching Antarctica, photograph by Charles Swithinbank. Price 3s. 6d. EDITORIAL: 'The Risks of Exploration', on the explorer's dangers, from Franklin and Scott to the first deaths in space. IN THIS ISSUE: Lake Rudolf by Charles Chenevix Trench (Lake Turkana, Kenya: can this great lake be developed?); Tourism's Furthest North by Valerie Stalder (a cruise to Spitsbergen); Russians in Antarctica by Charles Swithinbank (the first British exchange scientist at the Soviet Antarctic stations); Animal Immigrants by Harry V. Thompson (introduced species that proved expensive pests); Zurich: Switzerland's Last Battle by General Sir James Marshall-Cornwall (the use of geography in warfare); Dig the Beds Deep; Keep the Dykes Low by T. R. Tregear (Li Ping's 2,000-year-old Chinese irrigation); New Light on Elephant Seals by John Warham; Travellers' Tales: Imperial Meknes by John Woodyatt. ALSO: The World in Books, reviews by Terence Armstrong and David Crease. THEMES: Antarctica and the Cold War, polar exploration, East Africa, Arctic tourism, military history, China, wildlife and conservation, Morocco. 80 pages (pp. 721-800 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.), Charles Swithinbank, Charles Chenevix Trench, Sir James Marshall-Cornwall Publisher: The Geographical Magazine (Royal Geographical Society/The Times Publishing Company) Publication Date: 1966 Binding: Single Issue Magazine Condition: Used - Very Good.…

Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The Geographical Magazine, June 1966: Volume XXXIX (39), Number 2. 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: 'South Arabia', 'Inside China', 'Civilized Orkneys' and 'Thirsty Bakgatla of Bechuanaland'; a tribesman of Southern Arabia, photograph by J. C. Newby. Price 3s. 6d. EDITORIAL: 'Large-Scale Maps', on the Ordnance Survey's 1:1250 and 1:2500 plans and the £10 million catch-up. IN THIS ISSUE: Spiders of the Karroo by Eve Palmer (South Africa's giant insects); South of the Empty Quarter by J. C. Newby (a precarious peace in Southern Arabia); My Own Tribe by Naomi Mitchison (the Bakgatla people of Bechuanaland, now Botswana); The Orkneys by the Rt Hon J. Grimond MP (Jo Grimond on islands with a difference); Association Football - a World Power Game by Sir Stanley Rous (England plays host for the 1966 World Cup); Yellow Fever by Dr B. B. Waddy; In China Today - Sian by Euphan Hanbury-Tenison (Xi'an, provincial capital of the new China); Travellers' Tales: Two Lost Villages by Roger A. Redfern (ghost towns in Wales). ALSO: The World in Books, reviews by Peter Bradley, George Pleydell, Robin Hallett and T. R. Tregear. THEMES: Southern Arabia, southern Africa, Scotland's islands, football and the 1966 World Cup, Maoist China, tropical medicine, mapping and the Ordnance Survey, Wales. 80 pages (pp. 81-160 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.), Naomi Mitchison, Jo Grimond, Sir Stanley Rous Publisher: The Geographical Magazine (Royal Geographical Society/The Times Publishing Company) Publication Date: 1966 Binding: Single Issue Magazine Condition: Used - Very Good.…

Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The Geographical Magazine, June 1964: Volume XXXVII (37), Number 2. 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: 'Shadow on the Indus Plain', 'The South-East', 'Hellenism', 'The Night Trunkers', 'Forgotten Timor' and 'Memorable Meal by H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh'; photograph of soil surveying in the Indus Plain by V. C. Robertson. Cover price 3/6. EDITORIAL: 'Modern Geography', previewing the 20th International Geographical Congress held in Britain that summer, with Sir Dudley Stamp, President of the Royal Geographical Society, promised for the next number. IN THIS ISSUE: Hellenism: an Experiment in Multi-Racial Society by Stewart Perowne (the Greek legacy in Europe and the Near East); Memorable Meals No 5 by HRH Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh; Shadow on the Indus Plain by V. C. Robertson (waterlogging and salinity from irrigation in Pakistan); A Forgotten Outpost by Michael Teague (Portuguese Timor); The Pull of the South-East 2: A City Region by Michael Wise (after the South East Study); The Night Trunkers by John Seymour (Britain's long-distance lorry drivers); Travel Notes: Surfers; How to Get There. ALSO: The World in Books, reviews by Walter Bouverie, Dr O. G. Edholm, Brigadier R. Gardiner, Robin Hallett and Commander Joseph Palmer RN. THEMES: geography, travel writing, exploration, irrigation and soil science, colonial Asia, regional planning, transport, 1960s Britain. 80 pages (pp. 81-160 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 The Geographical Magazine Ltd, 91 St Martin's Lane, London. Author: Walter Hingston (ed.), HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, Stewart Perowne, John Seymour Publisher: The Geographical Magazine (Royal Geographical Society/The Times Publishing Company) Publication Date: 1964 Binding: Single Issue Magazine Condition: Used - Very Good.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. Limited to 1950 copies signed by Walter Muir Whitehill who wrote the introduction. Copy #137. Sturdy slipcase.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. LIMITED EDITION OF 1950 COPIES. This copy not numbered but has been SIGNED BY WALTER MUIR WHITEHILL who contributed the Introduction. Red cloth backed decorative tan boards. Illustrated with copies of wood and steel engravings dating from 1860 to 1870. A bright and crisp copy in the publisher's slipcase. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description: 195p : illus., (maps), plates, ports. ; 21cm. Subjects: India -- Army. World War, (1939-1945) -- Campaigns -- North Africa. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description: 195p : illus., (maps), plates, ports. ; 21cm. Subjects: India -- Army. World War, (1939-1945) -- Campaigns -- North Africa. 1 Kg.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Military & Warfare; History. Inventory No: 78808.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st. 1st ed. 243p. Illustrations Maps. Norway, France 1940, Burma. Blue clith. Bookplate. Fine Copy. Book.

Blue/gilt hardback cloth cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Some off-setting to half-title page. 230mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). xvi, 243pp. B/w plates, illustrations and maps.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. The first edition of the fifth volume on the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, following their fascinating history from 1919-1942. The first edition of the fifth volume of Lieutenant Colonel Walter Higston's historical narrative on the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Published by Lund Humphries and Co. in 1950In the publisher's original decorative cloth, with a frontispiece of The Regimental Chapel in Yorkminster. Contains all other 25 attractive illustrations by Major Dugmore, and 9 maps of areas in which the regiment fought. Collated complete.Written for future generations, Higston's stirring narrative follows his esteemed regiment and their significance across British military campaigns. In this particular volume, Higston details their service in India and Mesopotamia, as well as their struggles in the turbulent Burma campaign of World War II. In the publisher's original decorative cloth. Externally, very smart. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and the occasional marks to boards. End papers are bright and clean, with the rare spot to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very minor offsetting to half-title. Very Good Indeed. Major J.R. Dugmore (illustrator). book.…

1st Hardback Edition. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and dust-toned as with age. Some water damage to cover. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and strong. Physical description; x, 354 p, [66] leaves of plates : ill, maps, ports ; 23 cm. Subjects; India. Army. Division, 10th. World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Africa, North. World War, 1939-1945 Regimental histories India. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ slipcase.; 1 of 1950 printed copies. Third rear end page signed by Walter Muir Whitehill.

1st Hardback Edition. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and dust-toned as with age. Some water damage to cover. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and strong. Physical description; x, 354 p, [66] leaves of plates : ill, maps, ports ; 23 cm. Subjects; India. Army. Division, 10th. World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Africa, North. World War, 1939-1945 Regimental histories India. 1 Kg. …

Condition: Good. Light shelfwear to extremities of book, otherwise fine.