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1935; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 51; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

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Historical Studies of British Isles

EUROPE Place‐Names of Scotland. By J. B. Johnstone. London: John Murray, 1934. Price 15s. The Roman Wall in Scotland. By Sir George Macdonald. Oxford : The Clarendon Press, 1934. Price 30s. Colonsay and Oronsayin the Isles of Argyll. By J. de Vere Loder. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd Ltd., 1935. Price 35s. Norse Building Customs in the Scottish Isles. By A. Roussell. Copenhagen: Levin and Munksgaard, 1934. London : Williams and Norgate, 1934. Price 6s. 6d. Rural Britain To‐day and To‐morrow. By J. A. S. Watson. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd Ltd., 1934. Price 5s. The Yorkshire Pennines of the North‐West. By W. Riley. London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd., 1934. Price 7s. 6d. Swaledale. By E. Pontefract. London : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1934. Price 6s. The Wooden Ships of Whitby. By G. W. Bagshawe. Whitby : Horne and Son Ltd., 1934. Price 7s. 6d. Wade in Scotland. By J. B. Salmond. Edinburgh : The Moray Press, 1934. Price 5s. A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland. By Martin Martin. Stirling: Eneas Mackay. Price 10s. 6d. The Charm of Ireland. By S. Gwynn. London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1934. Price 7s. 6d. Les Hommes et leurs Travaux dans Us Pays de la Garonne Moyenne. By P. Deffontaines. Lille : S.I.L.I.C., 1932. [Presented by the author. A Wayfarer in Belgium. By Fletcher Allen. “ Wayfarer” Series. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1934. Price 7s. 6d. Mount Peacock. By M. Mauron. Cambridge University Press, 1934. Price 6s. Alpine Pilgrimage. By J. Kugy. London : John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1934. Price 12s. Tyrolean Summer. By O. Hamilton. London : Williams and Norgate Ltd., 1934. Price 8s. 6d. An Alpine Journey. By F. S. Smythe. London : Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1934. Price 18s. Romance in Iceland. By M. Schlauch. London : George Allen and Unwin Ltd. Price 8s. 6d. ASIA The Handbook of Palestine and Trans‐Jordania. Edited by Sir H. Luke, C.M.G., and Sir E. Keith‐Roach, O.B.E. London : Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1934. Price 16s. Ibn Saud. By H. C. Armstrong. London : Arthur Barker Ltd., 1934. Price 9s. The Natural Conditions of Soil Formation in India. By Z. K. Schokalsky. (Contributions to the knowledge of the soils of Asia. 2.) Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., 1932. A Foreigner Looks at India. By P. Staal. London: Jonathan Cape, 1934. Price 7s. 6d. Hymalayan Wanderer. By Brig.‐General Hon. G. G. Bruce. London : Alexander Maclehose and Co., 1934. Price 12s. 6d. The Holy Mountain. By B. S. Hamsa. London : Faber and Faber Ltd., 1934. Price 8s. 6d. Tibetan Trek. By R. Kaulback. London: Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd. Price 12s. 6d. An Eastern Odyssey. By Georges Le Fèvre. London : Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1934. Price 18s. One's Company: A Journey to China. By Peter Fleming. With Map and Photographic Illustrations. London: Jonathan Cape Ltd. Price 8s. 6d. net. Understand the Chinese. By William Martin. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1934. Price 75. 6d. AFRICA Adam's Ancestors. By L. S. B. Leakey. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1934. Price 7s. 6d. West African Agriculture. By O. T. Faulkner and J. R. Mackie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1934. Price 8s. 6d. The Underground Water Resources of Kenya Colony. By H. L. Sikes. Crown Agents for the Colonies, London, 1934. Price 5s. Silviculture of the Mixed Deciduous Forests of Mgeria. By W. D. Macgregor, Oxford Forestry Memoirs, No. 18, 1934. Oxford : The Clarendon Press. Price 15s. Mungo Park and the Niger. By Stephen Gwynn. London: John Lane (The Bodley Head) Ltd., 1934. Price 12s. 6d. Sir George Goldie. By Dorothy Wellesley. London : Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1935. Price 8s. 6d. Southern Africa. By H. Hutchison and J. W. Nankivell. Cape Town: Maskew Miller, 1934. Price 6s. 6d. AMERICA Journals of Hearne and Tumor. Edited and with an Introduction by J. B. Tyrrell, M.A., LL.D. Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1934. Chromite Deposits of Newfoundland. By A. K. Snelgrove. Bulletin No. 1 of the Geological Section, Department of Natural Resources, Newfoundland. St. John's, 1934. Grundriss der Kulturgeographie von Argentinien. By Franz Kühn. Pp. xiv, and 240, 38 photographs, 25 maps and plans. Hamburg: Friederichsen, de Gruyter and Co., 1933. Price, Bound, RM. 17.50; Paper, RM. 16.00. The Civilisation of the Old North‐West. By B. W. Bond. New York: The Macmillan Company Ltd., 1934. Price 15s. Bahamas: Isles of June. By H. MacL. Bell. London: Williams and Norgate Ltd., 1934. Price 10s. 6d. AUSTRALASIA An Empty Land: Pioneers and Pioneering in Australia. By The Hon. Sir John Kirwin. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1934. Price 15s. Wanderings in Tasmania. By G. Porter. London : Selwyn and Blount Ltd., 1934. Price 18s. Cobbers. By T. Wood. London: Oxford University Press, 1934. Price 7s. 6d. Law and Order in Polynesia. By H. I. Hogbin. London: Christophers, 1934. Price 12s. 6d. The Pastoral Industries of New Zealand. By R. Ogilvie Buchan, Ph.D. London: George Philip and Son Ltd., 1935. POLAR REGIONS Roald Amundsens Siste Ferd. Gunnar Hovdenak. (Med et Tillegg om Krassin‐Ferden av Adolf Hoel.) [Roald Amundsen's Last Journey. By Gunnar Hovdenak, with a supplement on the voyage of the Krassin by Adolf Hoel.] Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 1934. 30s. 6d. Norvegia Rundt Sydpollandet. [The voyage of the Norvegia round the South Pole, 1930‐31.] Gunnar Isachsen. Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 1934. [Presented by the author. GENERAL. Weather: The Nature of Weather Changes from Day to Day. By the Hon. R. Abercromby. New edition by A. H. R. Goldie. London : Kegan Paul Ltd., 1934. Price 10s. 6d. The Drama of Weather. By Sir Napier Shaw. Cambridge: The University Press, 1934. Price 7s. 6d. A Short Course in Elementary Meteorology. By W. H. Pick. London : His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1933. Price 2s. 6d. The Observer's Handbook. Meteorological Office. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1934. Price 5s. The Lancashire Cotton Famine, 1861‐1865. By W. O. Henderson. Manchester: University Press, 1934. Price 8s. 6d. The Living Universe. By Sir Francis Younghusband, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E. London : John Murray. Price 10s. 6d. The New Background of Science. By Sir James Jeans. Cambridge: University Press. Second Edition, 1934. Price 7s. 6d. The Exploration of the Pacific. By J. C. Beaglehole. London: A. and C. Black Ltd., 1934. Price 15s. Voyage of Floris to the East Indies. Edited by W. H. Moreland. London : Hakluyt Society, Series ii, vol. lxxiv, 1934. Price 25s. Thoughts, Talks and Tramps. By Sir Everard im Thurn. London: Oxford University Press, 1934. Price 10s. 6d. Mountaineering. “ The Lonsdale Library,” volume 18. Editor: Sydney Spencer, Hon. Sec. Alpine Club. London: Seeley, Service and Co. Ltd., 1934. Price 21s. Geomorphologie. By F. Machatschek. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1934 (2nd ed.). Price RM. 4.50. EDUCATIONAL. Observational Geography of the British Isles. Hatch and Duckering. London : Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1934. 2S. 6d.