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1951; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 67; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

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Abstract EUROPE The Observer's Book of British Geology. By I. O. Evans, F.R.G.S. Foreword by Professor H. L. Hawkins, D.Sc., F.R.S., F.G.S. 5 1/2×3 1/2. Pp.266. 170 illustrations in black and white. 12 plates in colour. [The Observer's Books, 10.] London and New York : Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd, 1949. 5s. Canals, Barges and People. By John O'Connor. 6×8. Pp.96. Coloured engravings by the author. End‐paper maps. London : Art and Technics Ltd, 1950. 10s 6d. Four Main Lines. By Hamilton Ellis. 9×6. Pp.225. 70 illustrations. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1950. 16s. Scots Fisherfolk. By Peter F. Anson. 7 1/2×5. Pp. viii+166. 24 illustrations by the author. 8 sketch maps. Banff: The Banffshire Journal Ltd, for the Saltire Society, 1950. 7s 6d. Scottish Railways. By O. S. Nock, B.Sc., A.M.I.C.E., M.I.MECH.E., A.I.LOCO.E. 9×6 1/2. Pp. x+214. 16 line illustrations. 14 colour plates. 16 black and white plates. Edinburgh and London : Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1950. 18s. Scottish Crafts. By Ian Finlay. 10×7 1/2. Pp.128. 16 plates in colour. 68 plates in black and white. London : George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd, 1948. 17s 6d. The Shetland Isles. By Andrew T. Cluness. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp.xii+308. 49 photographs. Map. [The County Books.] London : Robert Hale Ltd, 1951. 15s. The Estate and Castle of Skibo. By William Calder. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp.80. 14 illustrations. Edinburgh : The Albyn Press, 1949. 6s. The Capital of Scotland : A Twentieth‐Century Contemplation on Edinburgh. By Moray McLaren. 9 1/2×6 1/2. Pp. vii+179. 17 illustrations. Edinburgh : Published for The Rt Hon. Sir Andrew Murray, Lord Provost of the City, by Douglas and Foulis, 1950. 21s. In the Steps of St Mungo. By A. G. Williamson. 7 1/4×4 3/4. Pp.130. 9 photographs. Edinburgh : The Ettrick Press Ltd, 1950. 10s 6d. Places of Natural Beauty. By D. M. Matheson. National Trust Guide. 7 1/4×5. Pp. 170. 23 illustrations. Sketch maps. London : B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1950. 8s 6d. Derbyshire. By Crichton Porteous. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. viii+310. 49 photographs. Map. [The County Books.] London : Robert Hale Ltd, 1950. 15s. Derbyshire. By Thomas L. Tudor, F.R.G.S. Revised by E. Carleton Williams, F.S.A. 6×3 1/2. Pp. x+180. Photographs. End‐paper maps. [The Little Guides.] London :. Methuen and Co. Ltd and B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1950. 7s 6d. Island of Skomer. Edited by John Buxton and R. M. Lockley. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. 164. 28 illustrations. London : Staples Press Ltd, 1950. 18s. Leinster, Munster and Connaught. By Frank O'Connor. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. 296. 49 illustrations. Map. [The County Books.] London: Robert Hale Ltd, 1950. 15s. Norway To‐day. Edited by Per Vogt. 11 1/2×8 1/2. Pp. 160. Illustrated. Oslo: Dreyers Forlag. Fourth edition, 1950. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd. 30s. Norwegian Holiday. By Harlan Major. 8×5 1/2. Pp. xi+268. Illustrated. New York: Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1950. London: The Mayflower Publishing Co. Ltd. 27s 6d. Oslo—Norges Hovedstad : Kunst og Åndsliv ved goo‐Års Jubileet. [Oslo—The Capital of Norway : Art and Intellectual Life at its 900‐Years Jubilee.] Edited by Carl Fredrik Engelstad. Translation by R. J. Christophersen and E. L. de R. Endresen. 11 1/2×8 1/4. Pp.190. Illustrated. Oslo : Programbyraet, 1950. The Lapps. By Björn Collinder. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. x+252. Frontispiece. 25 plates. 2 maps. Princeton : Princeton University Press, for the American Scandinavian Foundation, New York, 1949. $3.75. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, 24s. Geographisches Taschenbuch : Jahrweiser zur deutschen Landeskunde, 1950. Edited by E. Meynen. 6 3/4×4 3/4. Pp.289. 3 maps. Stuttgart: Reise‐und Verkehrsverlag, 1950. The Sisters Alsace‐Lorraine. By Bernard Newman. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. 252. 29 illustrations. 6 sketch maps. London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1950. 15s. Mediterranean Blue. By Sisley Huddleston. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. 132. Illustrated. [Windows on the World.] London : Evans Brothers Ltd, 1948. 10s 6d. A History of Mountaineering in the Alps. By Claire Eliane Engel. Foreword by F. S. Smythe. 9 1/2×6. Pp.296. 26 illustrations. London : George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1950. 21s. The Alpine Highways of Switzerland. By Bruno Wagner. 8×5 1/4. Pp. 125. 35 photographs. Drawings. London : Edward Stanford Ltd, 1950. 7s 6d. The Selective Traveller in Portugal. By Ann Bridge and Susan Lowndes. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. x+290. 54 illustrations. Map of Madeira. 6 maps of Portugal. London: Evans Brothers Ltd, 1949. 21s. Rome. By Edward Hutton. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. xii+297. 32 plates. London: Hollis and Carter Ltd. Seventh edition, 1950. 16s. UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS Natural Regions of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. By L. S. Berg. Translated from the Russian by Olga Adler Titelbaum. Edited by John A. Morrison and C. C. Nikiforoff. 9 1/2×6 1/4. Pp. xxxi+436. 81 illustrations. 23 maps. 30 tables. Bibliography. Glossary. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1950. 75s. ASIA The Middle East: A Physical, Social, and Regional Geography. By W. B. Fisher, B.A., DR. de l'Univ. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. xiii+514. 93 figs. 2 folding maps. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd ; New York : E. P. Dutton and Co. Inc., 1950. 27s 6d. Wells of Power. The Challenge to Islam : A Study in Contrasts. By Olaf Caroe. 8 1/2×5 1/4. Pp. xx+240. 4 folded maps. London : Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1951. 15s. Naga Path. By Ursula Graham Bower. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. x+260. 22 illustrations. 2 sketch maps. London : John Murray, 1950. Third printing, 1951. 16s. This was Singapore. By R. C. H. McKie. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. 222. 9 photographs. London : Robert Hale Ltd, n.d. [1950]. 12s 6d. Am Rande des Pazifik: Studien zur Landes‐ und Kulturkunde Südostasiens. By Karl Helbig. 9×6 1/4. Pp. xii+324+40. 94 photographs. 10 sketch maps. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1949. DM 19.80. Structural History of the East Indies. By J. H. F. Umbgrove, D.Sc., HON.F.R.S.E. 12 1/2×10. Pp. xi+63. 68 text figures. 10 plates, including folding map. Cambridge : University Press, 1949. 30s. Mongolian Journey. By Henning Haslund. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. x+232. 12 plates. Illustrations. Map. London : Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd, 1949. 18s. China ohne Mauer. By Herbert Tichy. 9×6. Pp. 200. 56 drawings by Chen Chih‐Nung. Vienna : L. W. Seidel und Sohn, 1948. $3.25. Korea : Land, Volk, Schicksal. By Hermann Lautensach. 9 1/2×6 1/2. Pp. 135. 32 illustrations. 14 maps. Stuttgart : K. F. Koehler, 1950. INDIAN OCEAN Kings of the Cocos : The Story of the Settlement on the Atoll of Keeling‐Cocos in the Indian Ocean. By John Scott Hughes. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. xi+164. 5 figs. 16 plates. End‐paper maps. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd, 1950. 15s. AFRICA The Year Book and Guide to East Africa. Edited by A. Gordon‐Brown, f.r.g.s., for the Union‐Castle Mail Steamship Company. 7 1/4×4 3/4. Pp. xxxii+435+16 (atlas)+98 (advertisements). Folding map. London : Robert Hale Ltd, 1951 edition. 6s. Exploring We Would Go. By Ellen Gatti. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. x+302. 32 illustrations. London : Robert Hale Ltd, 1950. 15s. AMERICA The History of Nova Scotia. By G. C. Campbell. 8×5 1/2. Pp. xii+288. 19 illustrations. Toronto : The Ryerson Press, 1948. $4.00. Le Québec par l'Image. By Raoul Blanchard. 9 1/2×6 1/2. Pp.138. 7 figs. 54 plates. Montreal: Librairie Beauchemin Limitée, 1949. Climbs in the Canadian Rockies. By Frank S. Smythe. 9×6. Pp. ix+260. Illustrations by the author. London : Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, 1950. 20s. Two Captains West. By Albert and Jane Salisbury. 10 3/4×8 1/2. Pp. xix+235. Illustrations. 8 maps and end‐paper maps. Seattle : Superior Publishing Company, 1950. $7.50. News from South America. By G. S. Fraser. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. 224. 9 illustrations. London : The Harvill Press Ltd, 1949. 10s 6d. OCEANIA Cannibal Caravan. By Charles ‘ Cannibal’ Miller. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. 223. 29 illustrations. London : Museum Press Ltd, 1950. 15s. POLAR REGIONS Svalbard : A Norwegian Outpost. 11×8 1/4. Pp. 172. 204 illustrations by the late Ole Friele Backer. Introduction and captions by Professor Anatol Heintz. Decorative end‐paper maps. Bergen : J. W. Eides Forlag A‐S, 1950. London : Bailey Brothers and Swinfen Ltd. 30s. ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY An Economic Geography of Great Britain. By Wilfred Smith, M.A. 81/2×51/2. Pp. xv+747. 124 figs. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd, 1949. 32s 6d. BIOGRAPHY Champlain: The Life of Fortitude. By Morris Bishop. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. 367. 8 illustrations. Map of Champlain's travels. London: MacDonald and Co. (Publishers) Ltd, 1949. 18s. EDUCATIONAL The Spirit and Purpose of Geography. By S. W. Wooldridge and W. G. East. 7 1/4×4 1/2. Pp. 176. 10 sketch maps. London: Hutchinson's University Library, 1951. 7s 6d. Geografi for den Høgre Skolen. Bind 1. By E. Haffner and E. Knudsen. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. 256. 240 figs. Oslo : N. W. Damm og Søn. Fourth edition, 1949. Kr. 8.50. This Modern Age : An Introduction to the Understanding of Our Own Times. By F. C. Happold. 7 1/2×5. Pp. xv+328. 51 figs. London : Christophers. New edition, revised, 1949. 7s 6d. Map‐Reading for Schools. By Margaret Wood, B.Sc. 10×74. Pp. 66. 39 figs. 15 photographs. 11 maps in colour. London : George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd. New edition, revised, 1950. 6s. Intermediate Map Reading. By Thomas Pickles. 9 1/2×7. Pp. vi+41. 68 figures. 6 air photographs. 6 O.S. maps. London : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd, 1949. 3s 3d. GENERAL Herdsmen and Hermits : Celtic Seafarers in the Northern Seas. By T. C. Lethbridge, M.A., F.S.A. Foreword by T. D. Kendrick, F.B.A., F.S.A. 7 1/2×5. Pp. xix+146. Frontispiece. 27 figs. Cambridge : Bowes and Bowes Ltd, 1950. 10s 6d. ATLASES, MAPS, GAZETTEERS Webster's Geographical Dictionary : A Dictionary of Names of Places with Geographical Historical Information and Pronunciations. 9 3/4×6 3/4. Pp. xxxi+1293. Maps in the text, and 24 coloured maps. Springfield, Massachusetts : G. and C. Merriam Co., 1949. London : G. Bell and Sons Ltd. 80s. The Regional Atlas of the World. By John Bartholomew, M.C., M.A., F.R.S.E. Introduction by Professor A. G. Ogilvie, O.B.E., F.R.S.E. 11×8 1/2. Pp. xvi+160 +96. Edinburgh : The Geographical Institute, 1948. 45s. Bartholomew's Handy Reference Atlas of the World. 8×5. Pp. 32 + 159 maps+159 pp. General Index. Edinburgh : The Geographical Institute. Fifteenth edition, 1949. 25s. Edinburgh—Atlas and Guide. Designed by Bartholomew. 7 1/4×5. Pp. xvi+31. Historical notes and places of interest. Edinburgh: John Bartholomew and Son Ltd, 1950. 3s 6d.