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1953; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 69; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

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Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration

Abstract EUROPE Climate and the British Scene. By Gordon Manley, M.A., M.Sc. 8 1/2×5 1/2 Pp. xviii+314. 75 maps and diagrams. 41 colour photographs by Cyril Newberry and others. 40 photographs in black and white. [The New Naturalist, 22.] London: William Collins, Sons and Co. Ltd, 1952. 25s. Explorer's Scotland. By Martin Thornhill. 8 1/2×5 1/2 Pp. 232. 35 illustrations. End‐paper map. London: Skeffington and Son Ltd, 1952. 15s. Country Life Picture Book of Scotland, 11 1/2×9. 59 plates. London: Country Life Ltd, 1952. 12s 6d. The Drove Roads of Scotland. By A. R. B. Haldane. 8 3/4×5 3/4. Pp. xiii+266. 17 plates. Map of drove routes. Edinburgh : Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1952. 25s. Garth and Glen Lyon. Edited by Donald Patton, M.A., B.Sc., PH.D., F.R.S.E., and Arthur Cromar, M.A., LL.B. 7 1/4×4 3/4. Pp. 48. 18 illustrations. 2 sketch maps. Edinburgh: The Scottish Youth Hostels Association, and The Scottish Field Studies Association, 1952. 1s 3d. Edinburgh and the Lothians. Edited by Theo Lang. 8×5 1/4. Pp. xiii+282. 121 illustrations. End‐paper maps. [The Queen's Scotland.] London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, 1952. 15s. London. By Jacques Boussard, with the collaboration of H. J. Stenning. 9×6 1/2. Pp. 210. Photogravures. Plan. London: Nicholas Kaye Ltd, 1951. 21s. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Co. Inc. In Search of London. By H. V. Morton. 7 1/2 × 4 3/4. Pp. vii+440. 16 gravure plates. End‐paper sketch maps. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd, 1951. 12s 6d. London West of the Bars. By Douglas Newton. 8 1/2×5 1/2 Pp. viii+336. 49 illustrations. Map. [The County Books.] London: Robert Hale Ltd, 1951. 18s. The First Version of the Topography of Ireland by Giraldus Cambrensis. Translated by John J. O'Meara, M.A., D.Phil. 7 1/4×4 3/4. Pp. vi+121. 5 plates. Dundalk: Dundalgan Press (W. Tempest) Ltd, 1951. 8s 6d. Ireland and the Irish. By Charles Duff. 8 1/2×5 1/2 Pp.288. 4 figs. 44 illustrations. Decorative end‐paper map by S. Home Shepherd. London and New York: T. V. Boardman and Co. Ltd, 1952. 15s. Mourne Country : Landscape and Life in South Down. By E. Estyn Evans. 10×7 1/4. pp. xii+226. 93 figs. 17 plates. End‐paper map. Dundalk: Dundalgan Press (W. Tempest) Ltd, 1951. 32s 6d. North Norway : A History. By Frank Noel Stagg. Foreword by Professor A. H. Winsnes. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp.205. 16 plates. End‐paper map. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1952. 18s. Suomi—Finnland: Land und Volk im hohen Norden. By W. Evers. 7 3/4×5. Pp.167. 30 figs. 31 photographs. 48 tables. Map. [Kleine Landerkunden.] Stuttgart: Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, 1950. DM 9.80. The Bailiwick of Guernsey. By C. P. Le Huray. 8 ×5 1/4. Pp. xii+275. 125 photographs. End‐paper sketch map. [The King's Channel Islands.] London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, 1952. 15s. Sea‐Girt Brittany. By George Renwick. 8 1/2 ×5 1/2. Pp. 160. 17 illustrations. Endpaper sketch map. [Windows on the World.] London: Evans Brothers Ltd, 1951. 12s 6d. Alpine Glaciers. By A. E. Lockington Vial. 10 × 7 1/4. Pp. 126. 7 diagrams. 84 photographs. London : Batchworth Press Ltd, 1952. 30s. The Balearics : Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza. By Eric Whelpton. 8 1/2×5 1/2 Pp.x+276. 34 illustrations. 4 sketch maps. London: Robert Hale Ltd, 1952. 21s. Florence. By Edward Hutton. 8 1/2×5 1/2 Pp. xv+284. 33 illustrations. London: Hollis and Carter Ltd, 1952. 21s. INDIAN OCEAN The Indian Ocean. By Alan Villiers. 9×6. Pp.255. 33 plates. 10 sketch maps. Decorative end‐paper map. London: Museum Press Ltd, 1952. 21s. Island of the Swan: ’Mauritius. By Michael Malim. 8 1/2×5 1/2 Pp. viii+232. 16 illustrations. London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1952. 16s. AFRICA The Beauty of Morocco : An Introduction and a Guide. By Rom Landau. 8 1/2×5 1/2 Pp.167. 17 illustrations. End‐paper sketch map. [Windows on the World.] London: Evans Brothers Ltd, 1951. 12s 6d. The Gambia: The Story of the Groundnut Colony. By Lady Southorn. Foreword by Sir John Gray. 8 1/2×5 1/2 Pp. 273. 4 plates. Map. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1952. 21s. Eritrea on the Eve : The Past and Future of Italy's ‘first‐born’ Colony, Ethiopia's ancient Sea Province. By E. Sylvia Pankhurst. 8 3/4 ×5 5/8. Pp. 72+iv. 28 plates. 3 sketch maps. Woodford Green : ‘ New Times and Ethiopia News’ Books, 1952. 7s 6d. Tomorrow's a Holiday. By Arthur Loveridge. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. 303. 17 illustrations. End‐paper sketch map. London: Robert Hale Ltd, 1951. 18s. Mozambique. By Oliveira Boléo. 9×6. Pp. 562. 3 figs. 95 photographs. 15 sketch maps. [Monografias dos Territorios do Ultramar.] Lisboa : Agência Geral do Ultramar, 1951. AMERICA Alaskan Odyssey. By Bernard R. Hubbard, S.J. 8 1/2× 5 1/2. Pp. xii+198. 185 illustrations. 2 sketch maps. End‐paper map. London : Robert Hale Ltd, 1952. 18s. Arctic Trader : The Account of Twenty Years with the Hudson's Bay Company. By Philip H. Godsell, F.R.G.S. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. xv+320. 17 illustrations. London: Robert Hale Ltd. New edition, 1951. 15s. Resources and Policy : Current Issues in Conservation. Edited by Lee S. Greene and René de Visme Williamson. 9 1/4×6 1/4. Reprinted from The Journal of Politics, 1951 13 (3): 313–481. Gainesville, Florida : Kallman Publishing Company, 1951. $2.00. The Ohio. By R. E. Banta. 8 3/4×5 1/2. Pp.592. Illustrated by Edward Shenton. 2 sketch maps. [Rivers of America.] Edinburgh, Glasgow, and London : William Hodge and Co. Ltd, 1951. 15s. British Honduras: Past and Present. By Stephen L. Caiger. 8 1/2×5 1/2 Pp. 240. 2 sketch maps. London : George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1951. 18s. AUSTRALIA Travels in North Queensland. By Jean Devanny. 8 1/2×5 1/2 Pp.251. 25 illustrations. End‐paper map. London : Jarrolds Publishers (London) Ltd, 1951. 16s. BIOGEOGRAPHY Ecological Animal Geography. By W. C. Allee and Karl P. Schmidt. 9×6. Pp. xiii+715. 142 figs. End‐paper maps. New York : John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Second edition, 1951. $9.50. London : Chapman and Hall Ltd. 76s. The Classification of West African Livestock. By I. L. Mason. Foreword by J. P. Maule. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. vii+39. 38 plates. 2 maps. [Technical Communication No. 7 of the Commonwealth Bureau of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Edinburgh.] Farnham Royal: Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, 1951. 10s 6d. The Birds of Tropical West Africa : With Special Reference to those of the Gambia, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast and Nigeria. Volume Eight. By David Armitage Bannerman, M.B.E., M.A., SC.D., F.R.S.E. 10 1 /4 ×7. Pp. Xxiv+552. 15 figs. London : The Crown Agents for the Colonies, 1951. 50s. POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY World Political Geography. By G. Etzel Pearcy, Russell H. Fifield, and Associates. 9 1/2 ×6 3/4. Pp. xv+653. ‘ 139 figs, by Robert J. Voskuil. London: Constable and Company Ltd. Fifth printing, 1951. 45s. BIOGRAPHY Twelve Men of Plymouth. By Gerald Hamilton‐Edwards. 8 1/2×5 1/2 Pp. 96. 8 portraits. Vignettes by J. Rudkin Chart. End‐papers from an engraving by J. Thomas. Plymouth: Gerald Hamilton‐Edwards, 1951. 7s 6d. Hans Egede: Colonizer and Missionary of Greenland. By Louis Bobe. 10 1/4 ×7. Pp. 207. 44 figs. Frontispiece, a coloured plates. Hans Egede's map of Greenland, 1737, in 9 colours. Copenhagen : Rosenkilde og Bagger, 1952. Kr. 24, or 26s. An Explorer‐Scientist's Pilgrimage : The Autobiography of William Herbert Hobbs. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. 222. 16 plates. Ann Arbor, Michigan : J. W. Edwards Inc., 1952. $3.75. EDUCATIONAL The Groundwork of Modern Geography. By Albert Wilmore, D.Sc., F.G.S., F.R.G.S. New edition revised by Ethel R. Payne, M.Sc. 8 1/2×5 1/2 Pp. xii+403. 77 figs. 16 plates. London : G. Bell and Sons Ltd. Fourth edition, 1952. 20s. Physical Geography. By R. F. Peel, M.B.E., M.A. 7 1/2×4 3/4. Pp. xiii+290. 65 figs. [Teach Yourself Geography.] London: English Universities Press Ltd, 1952. 10s 6d. Maps and Diagrams: Their Compilation and Construction. By F. J. Monkhouse and H. R. Wilkinson. 8 1/2×5 1/2 Pp. xvi+330. 199 figs. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd. 25s. New York : E. P. Dutton and Co. Inc., 1952. The Homeland: Great Britain and Ireland. By R. W. Brooker. 7 3/4 × 5 1/4. Pp.317. Illustrated. Maps and diagrams. London : George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd, 1951. 8s 6d. Wales in Maps. By Margaret Davies. 9 3/4 × 7 1/4. Pp. m. 97 figs. Map showing Welsh place‐names. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1951. 7s 6d. GENERAL Human Geography. By Jean Brunhes. Abridged edition by Mme. M. Jean‐Brunhes Delamarre. Translated by Ernest F. Row, B.Sc. (ECON.), F.R. ECON. S. 10×7 1/4. Pp. 256. 40 figs. 40 plates. London : George Harrap and Co. Ltd, 1952. 25s. Social Evolution. By V. Gordon Childe, D. Litt., D.Sc. 7 3/4×5. Pp. viii+184. London : C. A. Watts and Co. Ltd, 1951. 10s 6d. Ports and Harbours. By F. W. Morgan, m. a. 7 1/4×4 3/4. Pp.176. 12 figs. London: Hutchinson's University Library, 1952. 8s 6d. Passenger Liners of the Western Ocean : A Record of the North Atlantic Steam and Motor Passenger Vessels from 1838 to the Present Day. By Commander (S) C.R. Vernon Gibbs, R.N. (Retd.). 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp.352. 57 illustrations. London:’ Staples Press Ltd, 1952. 30s. Sea Road to the Indies : An Account of the Voyages and Exploits of the Portuguese Navigators, together with the Life and Times of Dom Vasco da Gama, Capitão‐Mor, Viceroy of India and Count of Vidigueira. By Henry H. Hart, F.R.G.S. 8 1/2×5 1/2 Pp. xii+296. End‐paper sketch map. Edinburgh, Glasgow, London : William Hodge and Co. Ltd, 1952. 15s. Further English Voyages to Spanish America, 1583–1594. Documents from the Archives of the Indies’ at Seville illustrating English Voyages to the Caribbean, the Spanish Main, Florida, and Virginia. Translated and edited by Irene A. Wright, B.A., F.R. Hist. S. 8 3/4 × 5 5/8. Pp. xciii+314. 8 illustrations and maps. [Works issued by The Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. XCIX, 1949.] London: The Hakluyt Society, 1951. ATLASES Cosmopolitan World Atlas. Preface by Andrew McNally III. 14×11. Pp. xvi+376. Chicago, New York, San Francisco : Rand McNally and Co. Second edition, 1951. $12.50. The Citizen's Atlas of the World. By John Bartholomew, M.C., M.A., F.R.S.E., F.R.G.S. 14 1/4 × 10. Pp. xvi+200 (maps)+ 157 (general index). Edinburgh: John Bartholomew and Son Ltd. Tenth edition, 1952. £6, 6s. Concise Oxford Atlas. General Editors : D. P. Bickmore and K. F. Cook. 100×7 1/2. Pp. viii+97 (maps)+clxviii (gazetteer). London : Oxford University Press, 1952. 18s 6d. Philips’ Elementary Atlas. Edited by George Goodall, M.A. ii×8 3/4. Pp. xii+40 (coloured maps)+ 12 (index). London: George Philip and Son Ltd. Ninety‐first edition, 1952. 4s 9d. Climatological Atlas of the British Isles. Meteorological Office. Preface by Sir Nelson K. Johnson. 12×9 3/4. Pp. iv+139. London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1952. 52s 6d. An Atlas of Tudor England and Wales : Forty Plates from John Speed's Pocket Atlas of 1627. Introduced and described by E. G. R. Taylor. 7x5. Pp. 32. 40 maps. [King Penguin, 61.] Harmondsworth : Penguin Books Ltd, 1951. 3s 6d.