The Antarctic problem

Pioneering in New Guinea. By James Chalmers. London : The Eeligious Tract Society, 1887. Price 16s.

Australian Defences and New Guinea. Compiled from the Papers of the late Sir Peter Scratchley, R.E., K.O.M.G. By C. Kinloch Gooke, B.A., L.L.M., Barrister‐at‐Law. London : Macmillan, 1887. Price 14s.

Shores and Alps of Alaska. By H. W. Seton Kaee, F.R.G.S. Pp. xiv. + 248. London : Sampson Low and Co., 1887. Price 16s.

The Ancient Cities of the Neiv World, being Travels and Explorations in Mexico and Central America, from 1857–1882. By Désiré Charnay. With numerous Illustrations. Translated from the French by J. Gonino and Helen S. Conant. London : Chapman and Hall, 1887. Pp. xxxii. and 514.

Report on the Administration of the Punjab and its Dependencies for 1885–86. Lahore, 1887.

Précis de Géographic Élémentaire. Par Paul Chaix. Onzième. Édition, revue et modifiée. Geneva : Cherbuliez. 1887.

Lonqmani New Geographical Readers: The Seventh Reader.—The Ocean, Currents, Tides, the Planetary System, and Phases of the Moon. London : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887. Price 18. 9d.     

The Belgian Antarctic expedition

A Yachtsman's Guide to the Dutch Waterways. By T. G. Thorpe. London: Edward Stanford, 1932. Price 10s. 6d.

Scotland and the Modern World. By George Pratt Insh, M.A., D.Litt., F.E.I.S. Edinburgh: W. and A. K. Johnston, 1932. Price 2s. 9d.

Roman Britain. By R. G. Collingwood. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1932. Price 6s.

Across Lapland with Sledge and Reindeer. By Olive Murray Chapman. London: John Lane (The Bodley Head Ltd.), 1932. Price 15s.

My Tour in Portugal, By Helen Cameron Gordon (Lady Russell). London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1932. Price 12s. 6d.

On Foot in the Peak. By Patrick Monkhouse. On Foot in Yorkshire. By Donald Boyd. London: Alexander MacLehose and Co., 1932. Price 5s. each.

On the Roads from Rome. By Luigi Villari. London: Alexander MacLehose and Co., 1932. Price 12s. 6d.

Highways and Byways in Gloucestershire. By Edward Hutton, with illustrations by H. Thomas. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1932. Price 1s. 6d.

Modern Italy. By Cicely Hamilton. London and Toronto: Dent and Sons Ltd., 1932. Price 1s. 6d.

Trivial Adventures. By Michael H. Mason. London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1932. Price 10s. 6d.

Impressions of Palestine and Beyond. By Eunice G. Murray. Glasgow and London: Gowans and Gray, 1932. Price 6s.

Manchuria: Cradle of Conflict. By Owen Lattimore. New York: The Macmillan Company Ltd., 1932. Price 12s. 6d.

The Manchuria Year Book, 1931. By the East‐Asiatic Investigation Bureau. Tokyo, 1931.

The Land of Timur: Recollections of Russian Turkestan. By A. Polovtsoff. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1932. Price 10s. 6d.

The Italian Expedition to the Himalaya, Karakoram, and Eastern Turkestan (1913–1914). By Filippo de Filippi. London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1932. Price 50s. net.

Voiceless India. By Gertrude Emerson, with Introduction by R. Tagore. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1931. Price 15s. net.

An English Lady in Chinese Turkestan. By Lady Macartney. London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1931. Price 10s. 6d.

Forty Years in Africa. By Major Tudor G. Trevor. London: Hurst and Blackett Ltd., 1932. Price 12s. 6d.

African Small Chop. By Hector Duff. London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1932. Price 8s. 6d.

A Hoosier Holiday. By Theodore Dreiser. London: Constable and Co. Ltd., 1932. Price 10s.

In the West Indies. By John C. Van Dyke. New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. Price 8s. 6d.

The Country of the Orinoco. By Lady Dorothy Mills. London: Hutchinson and Co. Ltd., 1932. Price 15s.

Canada. By Alexander Beady, Associate Professor of Political Science in the University of Toronto. (The Modern World Series.) London: Ernest Berin Ltd., 1932. Price 18s.

A Naturalist in the Guiana Forest. By Major R. W. G. Hingston. London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1932. Price 18s.

Legends and Mysteries of the Maori. By Charles H. Wilson. London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1932. Price 8s. 6d.

Down Under, an Australian Odyssey. By R. W. Thompson. London: Duckworth and Co. Ltd., 1932. Price 12s. 6d.

Across New Guinea from the Fly to the Sepik. By Ivan Champion. London: Constable and Co. Ltd., 1932. Price 15s.

Harpoon. By Henry Ferguson. London: Jonathan Cape, 1932. Price 7s. 6d.

(1) Thirty Years in the Golden North. By Jan Welzl. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1932. Price 10s. 6d.

(2) Cold. By Lawrence M'Kinley Gould. New York: Brewer, Warren and Putnam, 1931.

Hunting Insects in the South Seas. By Evelyn Cheesman. London: Philip Allan and Co. Ltd., 1932. Price 10s. 6d.

The Wandering Gentile's Log‐Book (1929–1931). By Rathmell Wilson, F.R.G.S. London: John Davis, 1932. Price 5s.

The Mysterious Comet. By Comyns Beaumont. London: Rider and Co., 1932. Price 10s. 6d.

A History of Geographical Discovery and Exploration. By J. N. Baker. London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1931. Price 12s. 6d.

Omnibus Book of Travellers’ Tales. Edited by Milton Waldman. London: Leonard Stein, 1931. Price 8s. 6d.

Great Navigators and Discoverers. By J. A. Brendon. London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1932. Price 2s. 6d.

British Trade and Industry. By G. D. H. Cole. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1932. Price 16s.

Strangers in a Strange Land. By Marion Hartley. London: The Golden Vista Press, 1932. Price 7s. 6d.

Twelve Secrets of the Caucasus. By Essad‐Bey. London: Nash and Grayson Ltd., 1931. Price 15s. net.

Europe and China: A Survey of their Relations from the Earliest Times to 1800. By G. F. Hudson, M.A., Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1931. Price 15s. net.

The Age of the Earth. By various authors. Bulletin of the National Research Council. Washington D.C.: The National Academy of Sciences, 1931.

Géographie Universelle. Tome IV. Europe Centrale. Par Emm. de Martonne. 2me Partie: Suisse—Autriche—Hongrie—Tchécoslovaquie—Pologne—Roumanie. Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1931. Prix, frs. 120.     

The Major Economic-Geographic Regions of the USSR

A survey of the recent history of development, shifts in locational patterns and changes in organizational structure of the craft industries of Gor'kiy Oblast, one of the principal craft-industry areas of the Soviet Union. The authors map changes in the distribution of crafts and analyze economic-geographic factors in locational changes. Recommendations are made to preserve some of the crafts within the pattern of the Soviet economic system.     

The geopolitics of Antarctic governance: sovereignty and strategic denial in Australia's Antarctic policy

The governance of Antarctica has re-emerged as a geopolitical issue in the past decade due to the increased presence of China, India and Russia; the continent's importance in understanding global climate change; and its economic potential as a source of marine, genetic and mineral resources. This article examines the challenges for the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS) in this context and the consequences for Australia's foreign policy in its dual role as both a territorial claimant and supporter of ATS norms of cooperative science and environmental protection. The central argument is that Antarctic ‘bifocalism’ is under pressure as increased commercial activity and problematic jurisdictional interfaces with other regimes create difficult regulatory challenges for the ATS and encourage assertions of sovereignty that cannot be resolved within the existing regime. Consequently, the author argues that it is vitally important for Australia to preserve the legitimacy of the ATS through a policy framework of ‘strategic denial’ that aims to prevent all states from acquiring sovereignty over Antarctic territory. Australia should therefore reject recent proposals to securitise Antarctic policy or pursue World Heritage listing because they involve assertions of sovereignty that risk fracturing the ATS and thus compromise Australia's enduring interest in keeping Antarctica as ‘a continent of international cooperation and peace’.     

Surveying in the Antarctic

A Naturalist in Mid‐Africa. Being an account of a Journey to the Mountains of the Moon and Tanganyika. By G. F. Scott Elliot, M.A., F.L.S., F.E.G.S. Pp. xvi + 413, 49 figs., frontispiece, and 4 maps. 8vo. London: A. D. Innes and Co., 1896. Pp. xiii + 413. Price 16s.

A Breath from the Veldt. By John Guille Millais, F.Z.S. London: Henry Sotheran and Co., 1895. Pp. 236. Price £3, 3s. net.

Peru. Von E. W. Middendorf. III. Band : Das Hochland von Peru. Berlin : Robert Oppenheim (Gustav Schimdt), 1895.

Tafilet. The Narrative of a Journey of Exploration in the Atlas Mountains and the Oases of the North‐West Sahara. By Walter B. Harris, F.E.G.S., author of “A Journey through the Yemen,” “The Land of an African Sultan,” VOL. XII. Q

“Travels in Morocco,” etc. Illustrated by Maurice Romberg from Sketches and Photographs by the Author. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1895. Pages xii + 386. Price 12s.

From Far Formosa: The Island, its People, and Missions. By G. L. Mackay, D.D. Edited by the Rev. J. A. Macdonald. Edinburgh : Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier, 1896. 346 pp. Price 7s. 6d.

The Geology and Scenery of Sutherland. By H. M. Cadell, B.Sc., etc. Second edition. Edinburgh : Douglas, 1896. Pp. 104. Price 4s.

The Place‐Names of Fife and Kinross. By W. J. N. Liddall, M.A., Advocate. Edinburgh : W. Green and Sons, 1896. 8vo., pp. xiv. + 58.

Die Liparischen Inseln. Fünftes Heft—Filicuri. Prag : Heinr. Mercy, 1895.

Australien und Ozeanien. Eine allgemeine Landeskunde von Professor Dr. Wilhelm Sievers. Mit 137 Abbildungen im Text, 12 Kartenbeilagen, und 20 Tafeln in Holzschnitt und Farbendruck. Leipzig und Wien. Bibliographisches Institut, 1895. Pp. 521. Price 16 M.

Ritters Geographisch‐Statistisches Lexikon. Achte Auflage: Unter der Redaktion [von Johs. Penzler. Zweiter Band, L‐Z. Leipzig, 1895. 1202 pp.

The Natural History of Plants: their Forms, Growth, Reproduction and Distribution. From the German of Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Professor of Botany in the University of Vienna. Translated and edited by F. W. Oliver, M.A., D.Sc., Quain Professor of Botany in University College, London, with the assistance of Marian Busk, B.Sc., and Mart F. Ewart, B.Sc. With about 2000 original woodcut illustrations and sixteen plates in colours. Vol. i., Biology and Configuration of Plants, pp. xiv. + 777 ; vol. ii., The History of Plants, pp. xiv.+983. London and Glasgow: Blackie and Son, Limited, 1894 and 1895.

Handbook for Travellers in Algeria and Tunis. By Sir R. Lambert Platfair, K.C.M.G. Fifth edition, thoroughly revised. London : John Murray, 1895. Pp. 363. Price 10s. 6d.

Cassell's New Geographical Readers. Fifth Book—Europe. Sixth Book—The British Colonies and Dependencies. Seventh Book—The United States. London, etc. : Cassell and Co., 1895. Prices 1s. 6d., 1s. 6d., 1s. 9d., respectively.

The Statesman's Year‐Book. Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1896. Edited by J. Scott Keltie, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, with the assistance of I. P. A. Renwick, M.A., LL.B. London : Macmillan and Co., 1896. Pp. xxxii+1164.

The Australian Handbook, Shippers’ and Importers’ Directory and Business Guide for 1896. London, Melbourne, etc. : Gordon and Gotch. Pp. 632.

Beobachtungen der Russischen Polarstation an der Lenamündung. 1. Theil. Astronomische und Magnetische Beobachtungen. 1882–4. Bearbeitet von V. Fuss, F. Müller, and K. Jürgens. St. Petersburg : 1895.