Aesthetic Cartography: The Cultural Function of Portolan Charts from 1300 to 1700

The earliest printed maps 1472–1500. By Tony Campbell. London: The British Library, 1987. ISBN 0 7123 0133 X. Pp. xii, 244, illus. £40.00 (cloth).

Die ?Caerte van oostlant? des Cornells Anthonisz‐ 1543: die alteste gedruckte Seekarte Nordeuropas und inhre Segelanweisung. By Arend W. Lang. Schriften des Deutschen Schifiahrtsmeums Bd. 8. Hamburg: Ernst Kabel Ver‐lag, 1986. ISBN 3 8225 0012 7. Pp 168, 108 plates. DM 68.00.

Gilded scenes and shining prospects: panoramic views of British towns 1575–1900. By Ralph Hyde. Catalogue of an exhibition held 9th October to 15th December 1985. New Haven, Conn.: Yale Centre for British Art, 1985. ISBN 0 930606 49 3. Pp. 207, illus. £23.00.

L'Inventaire du Monde: géographic et politique aux origines de I'Empire romain. By Claude Nicolet. Paris: Librairie Artheme Fayard, 1988. ISBN 2 213 02020 5. Pp. 345, illus. FF160.00 (paper).

Espace français: vision et aménagement, XVI^e XIX^e siècle. Exposition organisé par la Direction des Archives de France, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication. Paris: Archives Nationales, 1987. ISBN 2 86000 135 2. Pp. 192, col. plates. FFI20 (paper).

Les militaires et la cartographie des Pays‐Bas Méridionaux et de la Principauté de Liège à la fin du xvii^e et au xviii^e siècle. By Claire Lemoine‐Isabeau. Centre D'Histoire Militaire, Travaux 19. Bruxelles: Musée Royal de L'Armée et Centre d'Histoire Militaire, 1984. ISBN 2 87051 0055. Pp.296, 30 plates. [Musée Royal de L'Armée et Centre d'Histoire Militaire, Pare du Cinquantenaire, 3, B‐1040 Bruxelles.]

Civil War maps: an annotated list of maps and atlases in the Library of Congress. Compiled by Richard W. Stephen‐son. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1988. ISBN 084405981. Pp. viii, 410, illus. US$46.00 (cloth).

Island, Grönland und das nördliche Eismeer im Bild der Kartographie seit dem 10. Jahrhundert. By Oswald Dreyer‐Eimbcke. Mitteilungen der Geographischen Gesellschaft im Hamburg 77. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden, 1987. ISBN 3 515 05102 3. Pp. iv, 170, illus. DM65.00. [Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, Birkenwaldstraße 44, Postfach 347, 7000 Stuttgart 1.]

L'analse de la carte ancienne: essai méthodologique: la carte du Bas‐Canada de 1831 de Joseph Bouchette. By Claude Boudrea. Rapports et Mémoires de recherche du CELAT 7. Québec: Université Laval, 1986. Pp. viii, 170, plates. [Centre d'études sur la langue, les arts et les traditions populaires des francophones en Amérique du Nord (CELAT), Faculté des Lettres, Universié Laval, Cité universitaire, Québec G1K 7PA.]

La Città de Napoli tra Vedutismo e Cartografia: Piante e Vedute dal XV al XIX Secolo. A cura di Giulo Pane e Vladimiro Valero. Napoli: Grimaldi &; C. Editori, 1987. Pp. 438, illus. [Grimaldi &; C. Editori, Via Bausan 61, 80121 Napoli.]

Exploration and mapping of the American West: selected essays. Edited by Donna P. Koepp. Map and Geography Round Table of the American Library Association, Occasional Paper 1. Chicago: Speculum Orbis Press for The Map and Geography Round Table of the American Library Association, 1986. ISBN 0 932757 01 4. Pp. viii, 184, illus. US$18.95 (cloth).

Explorations in the history of Canadian cartography: a collection of essays. Edited by Barbara Farrell and Aileen Desbarats. Ottawa: Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives, 1988. ISBN 0 9690682 6 3. Pp. xii, 274, illus. CDN$25.00 (paper). [Associationof Canadian Map Libraries and Archives, c/o Cartographic and Architectural Archives Division, National Archives of Canada, 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1A ON3.]

Jamaica surveyed: plantation maps and plans of the eighteen and nineteenth‐centuries. By B. W. Higman. Kingston, Jamaica: Institute of Jamaica Publications Ltd., 1988. ISBN 976 8017 08 2. Pp. xvi, 308, illus. £20.00 (paper) [Institute ofjamaica Publications Ltd., 2A Suther‐mere Road, Kingston 10, Jamaica.]

The Sanuto sixteenth‐century Venetian globe gores: Chicago: Holzheimer Research and Publications Project and Hermon Dunlap Center for the History of Cartography, 1987. 24 sheets. Published with: The Holzheimer Venetian globe gores of the sixteenth‐century by David Woodward. Madison: The Juniper Press, 1987. Pp. iv, 20. US$395.00 (boxed).

Printed maps of the British Isles 1650–1750. By Rodney W. Shirley. Tring: Map Collector Publications; London: The British Library, 1988. ISBN 0 7123 0142 9. Pp. 168, illus. £48.00 (cloth).

The city in maps: urban mapping to 1900. By James Elliot. Published by the British Library to accompany an exhibition held from June 1987 to December 1987. London: The British Library, 1987. ISBN 0 7123 0134 8. Pp. 88, 58 illus. £9.95 (paper).

Keyguide to information sources in cartography. By Alan G. Hodgkiss and Andrew F. Tatham. London: Mansell Publishing, 1986. ISBN 0 7201 1768 2. Pp. x, 253. £25.00 (cloth),

Maps and map‐makers of the Aegean. By Vasilis Sphyroe‐ras, Anna Avramea, and Spyros Asdrahas. Translated by G. Cox and J. Solman. Athens: Olkos Ltd., 1985. ISBN 0892414553. Pp.263, 166illus, col. plates. $100.00.

Maps with the news: the development of American journalist cartography. By Mark Monmonier. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1989. ISBN 0 226 53411 1. Pp. xiv, 331, illus. £19.95 (cloth).

Origem e desenvolvimento da cartografia Portugesa na Epoca dos descrobrimentos [The origins and development of Portuguese cartography at the time of the Discoveries]. By Alfredo Pin‐heiro Marques. Descoberta do Mundo. [Lisbon]: Imprensa Nacional ‐ Casa da Moeda, 1987. Pp. 228, 16 illus. 2,100 Escudos (cloth).

The charts &; Coastal views of Captain Cook's voyages, 1: The voyage of the Endeavour 1768–1771. Edited by Andrew David, Riidiger Joppien and Bernard Smith. Hakluyt Society Extra Series 43. London: The Hakluyt Society (with Australia Academy of the Humanities), 1988. ISBN 0 904180 23 9. Pp. lxiv, 328, illus. £100.00 (cloth). [The Hakluyt Society, c/o The British Library, Map Library, Great Russell Street, London WCIB 3DG],

Plantation acres: an historical study of the Irish land surveyor and his maps. By J. H. Andrews. Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation, 1985. ISBN 0 901 905 35 6. Pp. xxiv, 462, illus, 29 plates. £16.50 (cloth). [Ulster Historical Foundation, 68 Balmoral Avenue, Belfast BT9 6NY, Northern Ireland].

Indian maps and plans from earliest times to the advent of European surveys. By Susan Gole. New Delhi: Manohar Publications, 1989. ISBN 8h 85054 58 4. Pp.207, Illus. £45.00. [Jaya Books, 240^b Kentish Town Road, London NW5 1DD, or South Asia Books, PO Box 502, Columbia, Missouri 65205],     

Reviews of books

EUROPE

Island Going—to the Remoter Isles, chiefly Uninhabited, off the North‐West Corner of Scotland. By Robert Atkinson. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. 384. 7 figs. 47 plates. End‐paper maps. London: William Collins, Sons and Co. Ltd., 1949. 16s.

The Cairngorms on Foot and Ski. By V. A. Firsoff. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. 279. 49 photographs. Line drawings by the author. Map. London: Robert Hale Ltd., 1949. 15s.

Cumberland and Westmorland. By Norman Nicholson. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. x+250. 49 illustrations. Map. [The County Books.] London: Robert Hale Ltd., 1949. 15s.

Norfolk. By R. H. Mottram, 9×7. Drawings by Kenneth Rowntree. 55 photographs. 2 maps. [Vision of England.] London: Paul Elek (Publishers) Ltd., 1948. 9s 6d.

’Twixt Foyle and Swilly. By Harry Percival Swan, P.C., F.R.S.A.I., M.R.I.A. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. xix+247. 155 illustrations. Sketch map. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis and Co. Ltd., 1949. 10s 6d.

A History of Denmark. By John Danstrup. Translated into English by Verner Lindberg. 8×5. Pp. 195. 4 maps. Copenhagen: Wivel, 1948. Kr. 12.50.

Rome and its Environs. 7 1/4 × 4 3/4. Pp. x+84. 19 photographs. Map. [Les Guides bleus, English series.] Paris: Éditions Nagel, 1950. 250 fr.

ASIA

Guide to 14 Asiatic Languages. By Andrew Boyd. 7 1/2 × 5. Pp. x+262. London: The Pilot Press Ltd., 1947. 9s 6d.

AFRICA

Perspectivas económicas de Angola. By A. C. Valdez Thomaz dos Santos. 9×6. Pp. 235. 3 figs. 28 photographs. Lisbon: Agência Geral das Colónias, 1949.

AMERICA

History of the Buccaneers of America. By James Burney, F.R.S.” Introduction by Malcolm Barnes. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. xvi+382. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd. Reprinted (1912) from the edition of 1816. Second impression, 1949. 18s.

OCEANIA

Tell the White Man: The Life Story of an Aboriginal Lubra. By H. E. Thonemann. 8 1/4 × 5 1/2. Pp. 190. 29 illustrations. End‐paper sketch maps. London and Sydney: William Collins, Sons and Co. Ltd., 1949. 12s 6d.

The Coral Sea. By Alan Villiers. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp.291. 37 plates. Maps by Stephen J. Voorhies. [Oceans of the World, 3.] London: Museum Press Ltd., 1949. 18s.

POLAR REGIONS

A Camera in Antarctica. By Alfred Saunders, f.i.b.p., f.r.p.s. 10 × 7 1/2. Pp. 160. 72 photographs by the author. End‐paper maps. London: Winchester Publications Ltd., 1950. 21s.

That Frozen Land: The Story of a Year in the Antarctic. By David James. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. 204. 30 illustrations. 2 maps. 1 plan. London: The Falcon Press Ltd., 1949. 12s 6d.

BIOGRAPHY

A Labrador Doctor. The Autobiography of Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, K.C.M.G., M.D.(Oxon.), F.R.C.S. Introduction by Sir Henry Richards, C.B., LL.D. 9×6. Pp.350. Portrait. End‐paper maps. London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1948. 15s.

Nikolai Mikhailovich Przheval'skii. By N. M. Karataev. 8 1/2 × 5 3/4. Pp.284. Frontispiece. Map. [Nauchno ‐ Populyarnaya Seriya.] Moscow and Leningrad: Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 1948. 15 roubles.

EDUCATIONAL

Physical Geography. By Philip Lake. Revised and enlarged by J. A. Steers, G. Manley, and W. V. Lewis. Edited by J. A. Steers. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. xxviii+410. 204 figs. 24 plates. 7 maps. Cambridge: University Press. Second edition, 1949. 15s.

Fundamentals of Economic Geography. By Nels A. Bengtson and W. van Royen. Third edition revised in collaboration with A. Espenshade and P. Meigs. 10×7. Pp. xxviii+574. Diagrams, charts, graphs, photographs, and maps. London: Constable and Company Ltd. Third edition, 1950. 42s.

An Historical and Political Geography of Europe. By N. J. G. Pounds, M.A., Ph.D. 8 × 5 1/2. Pp. 540. 163 figs. London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1947. 25s.

The Parish Church. By Patrick Thornhill. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. 48. Illustrated. [The Get to Know Series.] London: The Pilot Press Ltd., 1948. 2s.

GENERAL

Les Fondements de la Géographie humaine. By Max. Sorre. 10 × 6 1/2. Tome II. Les fondements techniques. Deuxième partie. Les techniques de production et de transformation des matières premières. Pp. 611–1031. Figs. 36–61. Paris: Armand Colin, 1950. 1000 fr.

History. By V. Gordon Childe. 7 1/2 × 5. Pp.86. 10 illustrations. [Past and Present, Vol. 6.] London: Cobbett Press Ltd., 1947. 7s 6d.     

Wind as a factor in mountain ecology: Some data from the Cairngorm Mountains

EUROPE

The Domesday Geography of Midland England. Edited by H. C. Darby and I. B. Terret. 9 1/2×6 1/2. Pp. xv+482. 159 maps. Frontispiece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954. 55s.

Nottinghamshire (The County Books). By C. Marsden. 9×6. Pp. v+325. 49 plates. 1 map. London : Robert Hale Ltd, 1953. 18s.

The Royal Burgh of Ayr : Edited by Annie I. Dunlop. 9×5 3/4. Pp. v+342. 5 plates. Edinburgh and London : Published for Town Council of Ayr by Oliver and Boyd, 1953. 12s. 6d.

Europe and the Mediterranean. By N. J. G. Pounds. 10×7 1/2. Pp. vii+437. 246 figs. London : MacGraw‐Hill Publishing Co. Ltd, 1953. 42s.

The Evolution of Germany. By J. A. Hawgood. 6 3/4×4 1/2. Pp. ix+206. 21 maps. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd, 1955. 8s. 6d.

Czechoslovakia : A Geographical and Historical Study. By Harriet Wanklyn (Mrs. J. A. Steers). 8 3/4×5 1/2. Pp. vi+446. 77 figs. 4 end paper maps. London : George Philip and Son Ltd, 1954. 39s.

Cornwall: An Illustrated Essay on the History of the Landscape. By W. G. V. Balchin. 9 1/4×10 1/4. Pp. xi+128. 13 figures+1 general map. 61 plates. London : Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, 1954. 16s.

ASIA

What the World Showed Me. By Per Høst. Translated by K. Johnson. 8 1/4×5 3/4. Pp. 223. 69 plates (13 colour). London : Methuen and Co. Ltd, 1953. 18s.

Forerunner to Everest. By R. Dittert, G. Chevally, R. Lambert. Preface by Sir J. Hunt. Translated by M. Barnes. Pp. 256. Maps and sketches. London : George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1954. 15s.

Our Everest Adventure. By Sir J. Hunt. 9 3/4×7 1/2. Pp. 128. 150 figs, and maps. Leicester : Brockhampton Press Ltd, 1954. 12s.

South Col. By W. Noyce. 9×6. Pp. xvi+303. 16 sketches. 52 plates (4 coloured). 5 maps. London : Heinemann, Ltd, 1954. 21s.

Alone to Everest. By E. Denham. 8 3/4×5 5/8. Pp. 255. 13 figs. 4 maps. London : Collins, Sons &; Co. Ltd, 1954. 16s.

AMERICA

Viking Times To Modern. The Story of Swedish Exploring and Settlement in America. By E. W. Fleisher and J. Werbull. 10 1/4×8. Pp.115. Photographs and figs. Stockholm: Almquist and Wiksell. Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press, 1953. $4.50.

Geography of North America. By G. J. Miller, A. E. Parkins and B. Hudgins. 8 1/4×6 1/4. Pp. vii+664. Maps, diagrams and photographs. New York : Wiley and Sons Inc. Third edition, 1954. 60s.

The Pacific Northwest. By O. W. Freeman, H. H. Martin, et al. 8 3/4×6 3/4. Pp.540. 24 plates. 59 maps and diagrams. New York : Wiley and Sons Inc. Fourth edition, 1954. 68s.

Regional Geography of Anglo‐America. By C. L. White and E. J. Foscue. 10×7 1/2. Pp. vii+518. 230 figs. 15 tables. London: Constable and Co. Ltd. Second edition, 1955. 57s. 6d.

Les Antilles. By E. Revert. 6 1/2×4 1/2. Pp.220. 10 figs. Paris : Armand Colin, 1954.

Symposium on the Geography of Puerto Rico. Edited by C. F. Jones and R. Pico, 9 1/4×6 1/2. Pp. xxviii+503. 186 figs. 13 plates. Rio Piedras (P.R.). University of Puerto Rico Press, 1955.

CLIMATOLOGY

The English Climate. By C. E. P. Brooks. 8×5 1/2. Pp. vi+213. 27 figs. London : English University Press Ltd, 1954. 12s. 6d.

Further Outlook. By F. H. Ludlam and R. S. Scorer. 8 3/4×6 3/4. Pp. 174. 25 figs. 13 plates. London : Allan Wingate Ltd, 1954. 15s.

Glacier Variations and Climatic Fluctuations: Bowman Memorial Lectures. Series three. By H. W. S, Ahlmann. 9×6. Pp. v+51. 11 figs. 4 plates. New York: American Geographical Society : George Grady Press, 1953. $2.50.

BIOGEOGRAPHY

The Soils of Europe. By W. L. Kubiëna. 10 3/4×7. Pp.318. 21 plates (coloured and black/white). London : Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1953. 75s.

Soil. By G. V. Jacks. 8 1/8×5 1/2. Pp. ix+221. 7 figs. 10 plates (3 coloured). London and Edinburgh : Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1954. 12s 6d.

Vegetation and Watershed Management. By E. A. Coleman. 9 1/2×6 1/2. Pp. xiii+412. 6 figs. 16 plates. New York: Ronald Press Co., 1953. $ 7.

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

Les Fondements de la Géographie Humaine : Tome III. L'Habitat. Conclusion Général. By Max Sorre. 10×6 1/2. Pp. 499. 32 figs. Paris: Armand Colin, 1952. 1,500 Fr.

EDUCATIONAL

Africa : Studies and Exercises in Human Geography. By D. C. Money. Illustrated by W. R. Dalzell. 11×8 1/2. Pp.48. 85 figs. 82 plates. London: University Tutorial Press Ltd, 1955. 3s. 9d.

Geographical Film Strips. Educational Productions Ltd, Wakefield.

ATLASES

Kultur‐Geografisk Atlas. By J. Humlum. 10 1/2×7 1/4. I. Atlas. Pp. xx+127. II. Tekstbind. Pp. 302. Copenhagen : Glydendalske Boghandel Nordisk Forlag. 3rd Ed., 1955. Danish kroner 20.50 (19.50) and 31.50 (26.50), cloth and paper bound respectively.

*Atlas of Economic Geography. By J. Humlum. Pp. xii+127. London : Meiklejohn and Son Ltd., 1955. 15s. ($2.50).

Edinburgh World Atlas. Prepared and Edited by John Bartholomew. 14 1/2×10. Pp. 1+108 (atlas)+160 (index). Edinburgh : The Geographical Institute, John Bartholomew &; Son Ltd, 1954. 36s.

Atlas of Australian Resources. Prepared by the Department of National Development, Canberra.     

Glasgow university library Sölch collection : A note

EUROPE

The Soils around Jedburgh and Morebattle. By John W. Muir. 9 ¾×6 ¾. Pp. 878. 2 maps. 20 tables. 11 diagrams. 32 plates. 8 colour plates. Edinburgh : H.M.S.O., 1956. 30s.

The British Moorlands : A problem in land utilisation. By John Fraser Hart. 8 ½×5 ½. Pp. viii+98. 25 figures. University of Georgia Monograph, No. 2. Athens (U.S.A.) : Georgia University Press, 1955. $2.00.

European Refugees : A Study in Forced Population Movement. By Malcolm J. Proudfoot. 5 ½×8 ½. Pp. vi+542. 49 tables. 2 maps. London: Faber &; Faber Ltd, 1957. 52s 6d.

East Norway and its Frontiers. By Frank Noel Stagg. 8 ¾×5 ¾. Pp.285. 15 plates. 6 maps. London : Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1956. 18s.

La Yougoslavie : Aperçu Géographique. By B. Z. Milojevic. Translated by Mila Dordlvic. 9 ¼×6 ½. Pp. xi+89. I folded end map and numerous figures and plates. Beograd : La Commission pour les relations culturelles avec l'étranger, 1956.

ASIA

The Pakistani Way of Life. By I. H. Qureshi. 8 ¾×5 ¾. Pp. xi+81. 23 plates. London : William Heinemann Ltd, 1955. 12s 6d.

Indian Climatology. By S. B. Chattergee. 9 ½×6 ¼. Pp. 417. 36 tables. 80 diagrams. Calcutta : Commercial Printers, 1955. 20s.

Asia : Sketch Map and Exercise Books for upper forms. Book VII. By Thomas Pickles. 7 ¼×9 ¾. Pp.48. London : John Murray Ltd, 1956. 3s.

AMERICA

The Industrial Structure of American Cities : A geographic study of urban economy in the United States. By Gunnar Alexandersson. 10×7 ½. Pp. 134. 40 figs. 13 maps. London : Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1956. 40s.

CARTOGRAPHY

Topographical Maps and Photographic Interpretation. By P. T. Silley. 9 ½×6 ½. Pp. vii+76. 8 maps with 8 plates. 3 plates. 53 figs. London: George Philip and Son Ltd, 1955. 10s 6d.

Map and Photo Reading. By T. W. Birch. 10×7 ½. Pp.64. 24 maps and photos. London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1956. 16s.

Mapping the World. By Erwin Raisz. 6 ½×9 ½. Pp. 112. 72 figs and 7 plates. London : Abelard‐Schuman, 1956. 12s 6d.

GEOLOGY AND GEOMORPHOLOGY

Introduction to Physical Geology. By Chester R. Longwell and R. Foster Flint. 9 ¼×6 ½. Pp.vii+432. Plates and figs. 2 end paper maps. London: Chapman and Hall Ltd, 1955. 40s.

Geology and Ourselves. By F. H. Edmunds. 9 ¼×6 ½. Pp. 256. 12 plates. 15 figs. London : Hutchison's Scientific and Technical Publications, 1955. 21s.

Der Bodenfrost als Morphologischer Faktor. By Josef Schmid. 9 ½×7 ½. Pp. viii+144. 27 figs. 5 plates. Heidelberg : Dr Alfred Huthig Verlag, 1955.

Vocabulaire Franco‐anglo‐allemande de Geomorphologie. By Henri Baulig. 9 ½×6 ¼. Pp. xxv+230. Publications de la Faculte des lettres de l'Université de Strasbourg. Fasc. 130. Paris: Société d'edition: Les Belles Lettres, 1956. 1,200 fr.

ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

World Economic Geography. By Earl B. Shaw. 8 ¾×6 ½. Pp. vii+582. Maps, diagrams and plates. New York : John Wiley and Sons Inc. London : Chapman and Hall Ltd, 1955. 52s.

Chisholm's Handbook of Commercial Geography. Re‐written by L. Dudley Stamp and S. Carter Gilmour. 15th Edition. 8 ¾×6. Pp. viii+915. 30 maps and diagrams. London : Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1956. 70s.

La Pêche maritime el le Pêcheur en Mer. By Auguste Dupouy. 6 ½×4 ¼. Pp. 216. [Collection Armand Colin, No. 300.] Paris : Librairie Armand Colin, 1955. 250 fr.

GENERAL

A Concise Glossary of Geographical Terms. By J. C. Swayne. 6 ¼×4. Pp. 164. London : George Philip and Son Ltd, 1956. 6s 6d.

Worlds Beyond the Horizon. By Joachim G. Leithauser. Transl. by Hugh Merrick. 9 ½×6. Pp. 371. 46 plates+frontispiece. London : Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1956. 40s.

A Guide to Earth History. By Richard Carrington. 8 ½×5 ½. Pp. xvi+240. 44 figs. 16 plates, including coloured frontispiece, by Maurice Wilson. London : Chatto and Windus Ltd, 1956. 21s.

Puzzle of the Past. By Ronald Jessup. 12 ¾×9 ¾. Pp.68. Illustrations (colour/black and white). London : Rathbone Books, 1956. 15s.

ATLASES AND MAPS

The Oxford Home Atlas of the World. By Geoffrey Cumberlege. 10×7 ¾. Pp. viii+104+xxxi. London: Oxford University Press, 1955. 15s.

Map of Roman Britain : 16 miles to one inch. Third Edition. Text 11×8 ¼. Pp.43. 4 maps+Map of Roman Britain. Chessington : Ordnance Survey, 1956. 7s 6d.

Penguin Atlas. Edited by J. S. Keats. 8×5 ¾. Pp. xv+156. 80 colour maps. Harmondsworth : Penguin Books Ltd, 1956. 10s.

Oxford Regional Economic Atlas of the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe. Oxford : Clarendon Press. London : Cumberlege, 1956. 42.s.     

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.     

Reviews of books

EUROPE

Scotland Through French Eyes. By Paule Henry‐Bordeaux. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1934. Price 7s. 6d.

The Elusive River. By George Pratt Insh. Edinburgh and London : The Moray Press, 1933. Price 6s. net.

The Sunset Shore : Along Scotland's Sea‐Girt West. By Iain F. Anderson. London : Herbert Jenkins Ltd., 1934. Price 7s. 6d.

On Foot in Devon. By Henry Williamson. London : Alexander Maclehose, 1933. Price 55.

ASIA

Alone in Arabian Nights. By Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shap. London : Wright and Brown, 1933. Price 12s. 6d.

Special Correspondent. By A. R. Lindt. London : Cobden Sanderson, 1933. Price 10s. 6d. net.

East Again. By Walter B. Harris. Foreword by Sir James M. MacLeod. London : Thornton Butterworth, 1933. Price 18s.

Three Kingdoms of Indo‐China. By Harold J. Coolidge, Jr., and Theodore Roosevelt, Governor‐General of the Philippine Islands. New York : Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1933. Price 3 dollars.

Manchukuo. By Dr. J. A. B. Scherer. Tokyo : Hokuseido Press, 1933. Price 4s. net.

AFRICA

Simon van der Stel's Journal. Edited by G. Waterhouse. “ Dublin University Press Series.” London : Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1932. Price 25s.

Reminiscences of Livingstonia. By Robert Laws. Edinburgh : Oliver and Boyd Ltd., 1934. Price 6s.

AMERICA

The Death‐Thorn and other Strange Experiences in Peru and Panama. By Alma M. Karlin. Translated by Bernard Miall. London : Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1934. Price 8s. 6d.

AUSTRALASIA

New Zealand Holiday. By Rosemary Rees. London : Chapman and Hall Ltd., 1933. ’Price 8s. 6d.

PACIFIC

Modern Samoa. By Felix M. Keesing, M.A., D.Litt. London : George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1933. Price 16s. net.

EDUCATIONAL

The British Isles: A Geographic and Economic Survey. By L. Dudley Stamp and S. H. Beaver. London : Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1933 Price 25.C net.

Geographical Regions of France. By Emmanuel de Martonne. Translated from the French by H. C. Brentnall. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1933. Price js. 6d.     

¿Qué sabemos del Cantar de Fernán González?

The Poem or Book of Fernán González was probably written c. 1250 by a monk of San Pedro de Arlanza (Burgos, Castile) to strengthen the legendary foundation of his monastery by the tenth-century Castilian Count, Fernán González, and to promote his tomb cult there. The Arlanza poet was competing with the benefits that Santiago and San Millán de la Cogolla were trying to get on legendary accounts of the champion of the independence of the County of Castile from the Kingdom of León. It is clear that this is a work of monastic propaganda, designed to attract pilgrims and donations; therefore perhaps a better title for it would be Poem of the Foundation of San Pedro de Arlanza. The Arlanza poet was fond of the popular and orally transmitted Romance epics (Hispanic and Carolingian songs). He knew Siete infantes de Salas, the tradition of the Youthful Deeds of Rodrigo (Gesta de las Mocedades de Rodrigo), the anti-Carolingian song(s) of Bernardo del Carpio, and the Roncesvals Matière. We also suspect that the poet was recasting a now-lost epic cantar de gesta of Fernán González. This cantar was probably also known by Gonzalo de Berceo, who was actively working in San Millán de la Cogolla, a few years earlier, trying to attract pilgrims and donations. In this article, I try to analyze how much we know of the lost Cantar de Fernán González and if the Monastery of Sahagún (León) also reappropriated it for its own propaganda.     

Obituary

EUROPE

The Future of Scotland. By James A. Bowie, M.A., D.Litt. London and Edinburgh : W. and R. Chambers, Ltd., 1939. Price 7s. 6d.

Hebridean Journey. By Halliday Sutherland. London : Geoffrey Bles Ltd., 1939. Price 10s. 6d.

The Islands of Scotland. By Hugh MacDiarmid. London : B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1939. Price 10s. 6d.

To Introduce the Orkneys and Shetlands. By Iain F. Anderson. London : James Clarke and Co. Ltd., 1939. Price 7s. 6d.

My Kingdom for a Horse. By Margaret Leigh. London : Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1939. Price 7s. 6d.

North Cape. By F. D. Ommanney. London : Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1939. Price 10s. 6d.

The Land of France. By Ralph Dutton and Lord Holden. London : B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1939. Price 8s. 6d.

Greek Earth. By Sidney W. Hopper. London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1939. Price 12s. 6d.

The Mirrors of Versailles. By Elisabeth Kyle. London : Constable and Co. Ltd., 1939. Price 10s.

Towns and People of Modern Poland. By Robert McBride. London : Jarrolds Ltd., 1939. Price 10s. 6d.

ASIA

Minaret and Pipe‐Line: Yesterday and To‐day in the Near East. By Margret Boveri. Translated by L. M. Sieveking. London : Humphrey Milford at the Oxford University Press, 1939. Price 21s.

Settlements in the Lower Indus Basin (Sind), Parts I and II ; and Sind's Changing Map. By Professor M. B. Pithawalla. Karachi: The author. Prices Rs. 5 and Rs. 2 respectively.

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

Peaks and Lamas. By Marco Pallis. London : Cassell and Co. Ltd., 1939. Price 18s.

Eastern Journey. By J. H. MacCullum Scott. London : The Travel Book Club, 1939. Price 3s. 6d.

The Naked Nagas. By C. von Fürer‐Haimendorf. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1939. Price 15s.

Karakoro: At Home in Japan. By Henry Noël. Tokyo : The Hokuseido Press, 1939. Price 6s. 6d.

I went to the Soviet Arctic. By Ruth Gruber. London : Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1939. Price 10s. 6d.

AFRICA

Afrique Équatoriale, Orientale et Australe (Géographie Universelle, vol. XII). By Fernand Maurette. Paris : Librairie Armand Colin, 1938. Price, 150 francs.

Ethiopia: An Empire in the Making. By Ferdinando Quaranta. London : P. S. King and Son Ltd., 1939. Price 7s. 6d.

By Bus to the Sahara. By Gordon West. London : The Travel Book Club, 1939. Price 3s. 6d.

Dark Subjects : Twenty‐four Adventurous Years in Nigeria. By H. L. Ward Price. London : Jarrolds Ltd., 1939. Price 15s.

AMERICA

Journey to the World's End. By Hakon Mielche. Edinburgh and London : William Hodge and Co. Ltd., 1939. Price 12s. 6d.

AUSTRALIA

A Voyage to New Holland. By William Dampier. Edited, with Introduction, Notes and Illustrative Documents, by James A. Williamson, D.Litt. London : The Argonaut Press, 1939. Price 12s. 6d.

Australian Journey. By Paul McGuire. London : William Heinemann Ltd., 1939. Price 12s. 6d.

POLAR REGIONS

Polar Exploration (” Epics of the Twentieth Century “). By Andrew Croft. London : A. and C. Black Ltd., 1939. Price 7s. 6d.

Sir John Franklin's Last Arctic Expedition. By Richard J. Cyriax. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1939. Price 12s. 6d.

GENERAL

Admiralty Weather Manual, 1938. By Order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. London: H.M.S.O., for the Hydrographic Department, Admiralty, 1938. Price 10s. 6d.

White Settlers in the Tropics. By A. Grenfell Price, with additional notes by R. G. Stone. New York: American Geographical Society, Special Publication No. 23, 1939. Price $4.00.

BIOGRAPHY

Livingstone et l'Exploration de l'Afrique. By René Maran. Paris : Gallimard. Eighth Edition, 1938. Price 25. francs.

I Was There. By Edith Tyrrell. Toronto : The Ryerson Press, 1938. Price $2.00.

EDUCATIONAL TEXT‐BOOKS

Memorandum on the Teaching of Geography. Issued by the Incorporated Association of Assistant Masters in Secondary Schools. London : George Philip and Son Ltd. Second Edition Revised 1939. Price 8s. 6d.

The World of Man. Book IV. Europe, The British Isles and the World. By C. C. Carter and E. C. Marchant. London : Christophers Ltd. Price 3s. 9d.

Geography for To‐day : North America and Asia (also issued separately) : Europe and the British Isles (also issued separately). By a Committee including L. Dudley Stamp and L. S. Suggate. London : Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1939. Price, 4s. each, or 3s., 2s. 6d., 2s. 9d. and 2s. 9d. respectively.     

Review of the Alaska boundary question

EUROPE

Language as a Social and Political Factor in Europe. By Stanley Rundle. 8 3/4 x 5 5/8. Pp. 207. 11 sketch maps. London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1946. 12s 6d.

Britain's Structure and Scenery. By L. Dudley Stamp, C.B.E., B.A., D.Sc. 8 1/2 x 6. Pp. xvi+255. 47 colour photographs. 40 photographs in black and white. 74 maps and diagrams. London : William Collins, Sons and Co. Ltd., 1946. 16s.

Climbing in Britain. Edited by J. E. Q. Barford. 7 x 4 1/2. Pp. 160. 47 figs. 18 photographs. Pelican Books, A 160. Harmondsworth : Penguin Books Ltd., 1946. 1s.

Scotland before the Scots. The Rhind Lectures for 1944. By V. Gordon Childe. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp. viii+144. 24 figs. 16 plates. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1946. 12s 6d.

On Scottish Hills. By B. H. Humble. Foreword by Geoffrey Winthrop Young. 10 x 7 1/2. Pp. 128. 75 photographs. End‐paper sketches. London: Chapman and Hall Ltd., 1946. 18s.

The Promise of the Years. By Edward Grace. 9 1/4 x 7. Pp.120. 26 illustrations. London: Sylvan Press Ltd., 1946. 16s.

The Lure of Lakeland. By E. D. Tinne. 6 1/2 x 8. Pp.64. 22 illustrations by the author. End‐paper sketch map. London : Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd., 1946. 7s 6d.

Henley‐in‐Arien : An Ancient Market Town and its Surroundings. By William Cooper, F.S.A., F.R.Hist.S. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp. xii+195. 14 illustrations. 2 maps. Birmingham: Cornish Brothers Ltd., 1946. 21s.

The River Windrush. By Wilson MacArthur. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp. viii+184. 46 photographs. London : Cassell and Co. Ltd., 1946. 10s 6d.

This Land of Sweden. By Prince William of Sweden. Translated by Elizabeth Kjellberg. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp. 395‐ 17 illustrations. Stockholm : P. A. Norstedt och Söners Förlag, 1946. 16 kr.

La Route Française, son Histoire, sa Fonction. By Henri Cavaillès. 9 x 5 1/2. Pp. 399. 7 figs. Paris : Librairie Armand Colin, 1946. 370 fr.

The Matterhorn. By Guido Rey. Translated from the Italian by J. E. C. Eaton. Revised and two additional Chapters by R. L. G. Irving. 8 1/2 x 6 1/2. Pp. x+278. 37 illustrations. Oxford : Basil Blackwell, 1946. 15s.

The Growth of Modern Germany. By Roy Pascal. 7 1/2 x 5. Pp. viii+145. 11 photographs. 5 charts. 3 sketch maps. Past and Present, Vol.2. London: Cobbett Press, 1946. 7s 6d.

The Republic of Austria 1918–1934: A Study in the Failure of Democratic Government. By Mary Macdonald. 7 1/4 x 5. Pp. viii+165. Issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. London: Oxford University Press, 1946. 8s 6d.

Under the Carpathians : Home of a Forgotten People. By J. B. Heisler and J. E. Mellon. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp.124. 79 illustrations. London: Lindsay Drummond Ltd., 1946. 12s 6d.

ASIA

Paysans de Syrie et du Proche‐Orient. By Jacques Weulersse. 9 x 5 1/2. Pp. 329. 69 figs. 16 plates. Le Paysan et la Terre, No. 3. Paris : Librairie Gallimard, 1946. 360 fr.

Black Borneo. By Charles C. Miller. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp.220. 23 photographs. London: Museum Press Ltd., 1946. 15s.

The Philippine Islands. By W. Cameron Forbes. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp. xv+424. 31 illustrations. Map. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press ; London : Oxford University Press. Revised edition, 1945. 85.00 or 23s 6d.

A Presença de Portugal em Macau. By António da Silva Rego. 8 3/4 x 6 1/4. Pp. xiii+III. Lisbon : Agência Geral das Cólonias, 1946.

Asia on the Move : Population Pressure, Migration, and Resettlement in Eastern Asia under the Influence of Want and War. By Bruno Lasker. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp. xiii+207. End‐paper sketch maps. New York : Henry Holt and Company Inc., 1945. S3.00.

AFRICA

The Northern Goldfields Diaries of Thomas Baines. Edited by J. P. R. Wallis. 10 x 6 1/2. Vol.1. Pp. xxxviii+1–278. 9 illustrations (colour and half‐tone). 2 maps. Vol. II. Pp. viii+279–598. 12 illustrations. 1 map. Vol. III. Pp. viii+599–855. 8 illustrations. 2 maps. Government Archives of Southern Rhodesia : Oppenheimer Series, No. 3. London: Chatto and Windus, 1946. 90s per set of three volumes.

AMERICA

Quebec: Historic Seaport. By Mazo de la Roche. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp. xii+212. 17 illustrations. London : Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1946. 12s 6d.

AUSTRALASIA

Soil Erosion in Australia and New Zealand‐ By J. Macdonald Holmes, Ph.D. 9 1/2 x 7 1/4. Pp.296. 63 figs. 62 plates. Sydney and London : Angus and Robertson Ltd., 1946. 17s 6d.

POLAR REGIONS

Bibliography of Bibliographies on the Arctic. By Rev. Artheme Dutilly, O.M.I. 10 x 7. Pp. 47. Map. Washington D.C.: The Catholic University of America, 1945. $1.00.

Life on an Icefloe. By Ivan Papanin. Translated from the Russian by Fanny Smitham. 9 x 6. Pp.240. 20 photographs. Map. London: Hutchinson and Co. (Publishers) Ltd., N.D. 18s.

EDUCATIONAL

The Raw Materials of the World. By J. Gentilli. Foreword by Dr. G. L. Wood. 7 1/4 + 4 3/4. Pp. xi+306. 50 diagrams. 48 maps. Sydney, Melbourne, Perth : Whitcombe and Tombs Pty. Ltd., N.D. 8s 6d.

Fundamentals of Economic Geography. By Nels A. Bengtson and Willem van Royen. 9 x 6. Pp. xxvii+802. 299 maps and illustrations. New York : Prentice Hall Inc. Revised edition, 1946. $6.00.

GENERAL

Dating the Past: An Introduction to Geodironology. By Frederick E. Zeuner, D.Sc., F.Z.S., F.G.S. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. Pp. xviii+444. 24 plates. 103 diagrams. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1946. 30s.

Ports of the World. Edited by Sir Archibald Hurd. 8 x 5 1/2. Pp. xxxiv+1065. London: The Shipping World Ltd., 1946. (Post free) 30s.

Snow on the Hills. By F. S. Smythe. 12 1/2 x 10. Pp. 119. 47 plates. London: Adam and .Charles Black Ltd., 1946. 20s.

ATLASES

The Compact Atlas of the World. By John Bartholomew. 6 3/4 x 4 1/4. Pp. xvi+128+30. Edinburgh : John Bartholomew and Son Ltd. 2nd edition, 1945. 6s.

Bacon's All Essentials School Atlas, containing maps showing contours, isobars, isotherms, rainfall, vegetation, population, productions, communications, political boundaries, etc., and a complete alphabetical index to names. 9 3/4 x 7 1/4. Pp. 47. Edinburgh : G. W. Bacon and Co. Ltd., [1946]. 3s 6d.     

The “Mounth” passes over the Grampians

EUROPE

Our Rivers. By J. W. Kempster. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. xi+300. 20 plates. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1948. 25s.

The Outer Hebrides in Relation to Highland Depopulation. By William Adams Hance. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. xv+148. 9 maps. Bibliography. [Ph.D. Thesis, Columbia University.] Lithoprinted. New York : William A. Hance, 1949.

St. Columba and Hinba and Na h'Eileacha Naomha. The Whirlpool of Corrievreckan. By the Hon. Arthur Murray, C.M.G., D.S.O. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. 28. g illustrations. Chart and sketch map. Privately printed, 1949.

A Hundred Tears in the Highlands. By Osgood Hanbury Mackenzie of Inverewe. Edited with an additional chapter by M. T. Sawyer of Inverewe. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. 221. 9 illustrations. Map. London : Geoffrey Bles Ltd. New and revised edition, 1949. 12s 6d.

The Buried Barony. By Alasdair Alpin MacGregor. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. xv+163. Frontispiece. 54 illustrations. London : Robert Hale Ltd., 1949. 12s 6d.

Cairnhill. By Hamilton More Nisbett and the late Stair Carnegie Agnew. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp.215. 18 illustrations. Edinburgh: The Moray Press, 1949. 16s.

Bedfordshire. By Laurence Meynell. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. xv+366. 49 illustrations. Sketch map. [The County Books.] London : Robert Hale Ltd., 1950. 15s.

The West of England. By Ruth Manning‐Sanders. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. viii+152. 117 illustrations. End‐paper sketch maps. [The Face of Britain Series.] London : B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1949. 12s 6d.

Midland England. A Survey of the Country between the Chilterns and the Trent. By W. G. Hoskins. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. viii+120. 108 illustrations. End‐paper sketch maps. [The Face of Britain Series.] London : B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1949. 12s 6d.

Severn Stream. By Brian Waters. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. 206. 17 illustrations. London : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1949. 15s.

Ulster. By Hugh Shearman. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. xii+427. 49 illustrations. Sketch map. [The County Books.] London : Robert Hale Ltd., 1919. 15s.

Ireland. Edited by L. Russell Muirhead, M.A. (Cantab.). 6 1/4 × 4. Pp. Ixxii+296+ (atlas) 31. 15 maps and plans. [The Blue Guides.] London : Ernest Benn Ltd. Second edition, 1949. 15s

Dublin: A Study in Environment. By John Harvey. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. xii+116. 161 illustrations. End‐paper maps. ["British Cities” Series.] London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1949. 15s.

Iceland Yesterday and To‐day. By Horace Leaf, F.R.G.S. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. viii+205. 18 Photographs. Coloured map. London : George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1949. 15s.

The Viking Lands. By Gordon Young. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp.154. 17 illustrations. Endpaper sketch maps. London : Evans Brothers Ltd., 1949. 9s 6d.

The Norway Tear Book, 1950. Edited by Sverre Mortensen and A. Skøien. 7 1/2 × 5. Pp. 419. Frontispiece. Oslo : Johan Grundt Tanum, 1950.

ASIA

A Handbook for Travellers in India and Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon, including the Portuguese and French Possessions and the Indian States. Edited by Sir Gordon Hearn, C.I.E., D.S.O. 7 1/4 × 4 3/4. Pp. cxxiv+792. Maps and plans. London : John Murray. Sixteenth edition, 1949. 42s.

Robert Knox in the Kandyan Kingdom. Selected and edited by E. F. C. Ludowyk. 7 1/2 × 5. Pp. xxviii+175. 4 photographs by the late Lionel Wendt. End‐paper map. London : Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press (Indian Branch), 1948. Rs 6, or 9s.

White Stranger : Six Moons in Celebes. By Harry Wilcox. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. 384. 24 illustrations. Sketch map. London : William Collins, Sons and Co. Ltd., 1949. 16s.

MADAGASCAR

Madagascar. By Hubert Deschamps. 7 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp.188. 16 photographs. 3 sketch maps. Paris : Éditions Berger‐Levrault, 1947. 165 fr.

AMERICA

Histoire de la Grande Pêche de Terre‐Neuve. By Robert de Loture. 7 1/2 × 4 3/4. Pp.255. 1 fig. 2 sketch maps. Paris : Librairie Gallimard, 1949. 325 fr.

Grassland Historical Studies : Natural Resources Utilization in a Background of Science and Technology. Vol. 1. Geology and Geography. By James C. Malin. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. xii+377. 3 illustrations. 2 maps. [Lithoprinted.] Lawrence, Kansas : James C. Malin, 1950. $2.50.

South America called Them : Explorations of the Great Naturalists Charles‐Marie de la Condamine, Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, Richard Spruce. By Victor W. von Hagen. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. xiv+401. 28 illustrations. London: Robert Hale Ltd., 1949. 21s.

A Naturalist in the Gran Chaco. By Sir John Graham Kerr, F.R.S. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. xi+235. 24 plates. 2 sketch maps. Cambridge: University Press, 1950. 21s.

OCEANIA

Island Administration in the South West Pacific: Government and Reconstruction in New Caledonia, the New Hebrides, and the British Solomon Islands. By Cyril S. Belshaw. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. viii+158. 4 maps. London and New York : Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1950. 12s 6d.

Fijian Village. By Buell Quain. Introduction by Ruth Benedict. 9×6. Pp. xvii+459. 17 plates. 7 sketch maps. Glossary. Chicago, Illinois : University of Chicago Press, 1947. London: Cambridge University Press. 27s 6d.

Polynesian Trade Wind. By Sverre Holmsen. Translated from the Swedish by Joan Bulman. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. 186. 29 illustrations. End‐paper sketch maps. London : James Barrie Publishers Ltd., 1949. 15s.

The Kon‐Tiki Expedition : By Raft across the South Seas. By Thor Heyerdahl. Translated from the Norwegian Kon‐Tiki Ekspedisjonen (1948) by F. H. Lyon. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. 235. Frontispiece. 18 plates. London : George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1950. 12s 6d.

POLAR REGIONS

We Live in the Arctic. By Constance and Harmon Helmericks. 9×6. Pp. xiv+321. 3 diagrams. 30 illustrations. Decorative end‐paper sketch maps. London : Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1949. 20s.

OCEANOGRAPHY

The Sea and its Mysteries. By John S. Colman. 7 1/2 × 5. Pp.285. 17 plates. 36 figs. Map. London : G. Bell and Sons Ltd., 1950. 12s 6d.

Les Richesses de la Mer.: Technologie biologique et océanographique. By Noël Boudarel. 10 × 6 1/2. Pp. 549, 1006 figs. [Encyclopédie Biologique, XXIX.] Paris : Paul Lechevalier, 1948. 1500 fr.

Sea‐Shore Life of Britain. By L. R. Brightwell, F.Z.S., F.R.H.S., M.B.A. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. xii+116. 94 illustrations. [The British Nature Library.] London: B. T. Batsford Ltd. [1947], 1948. 12s 6d.

BIOGEOGRAPHY

The Badger. By Ernest Neal, M.Sc. (Lond.). 8 × 5 1/2. Pp.xv+158. 12 figs. 1 colour photograph by the author. 29 black‐and‐white photographs. [New Naturalist Monographs, 1.] London : William Collins, Sons and Co. Ltd., 1948. 12s 6d.

EDUCATIONAL

Modern World Geography—Economic and Social. By Earl C. Case and Daniel R. Bergsmark. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. xii+746. Diagrams, sketch maps, photographs. 6 coloured maps. Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott Company. Revised edition, 1949. 21s.

A Regional Economic Geography. By Samuel Newton Dicken, 10 1/2 × 7 1/2. Pp. xii+516. 263 figs. End‐paper maps. Boston, Massachusetts : D. C. Heath and Company, 1949. London : George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd. 25s.

GENERAL

The Voyages of Captain James Cook round the World. Selected from his Journals and edited by Christopher Lloyd. 8×5. Pp. xxiii+384. End‐paper maps. London : The Cresset Press Ltd., 1949. 9s 6d.     

Reviews of Atlases and maps

EUROPE

An Atlas of Edinburgh. Prepared and published by the Geographical Association (Edinburgh Branch). 15 × 10. Pp. 39+5. 10s.

National Atlas of Disease Mortality in the United Kingdom. Prepared by G. M. Howe. 11 ¼ × 6 ¾. Pp. 111. 56 maps and associated commentaries, statistical appendix and administrative overtraces. London and Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1963. 35s.

Oxford Plastic Relief Maps; series 4: maps 8 (Devon), 9 (Cornwall), and 10 (Hampshire).

AFRICA

Nigeria Junior Atlas. Edited by E. E. Soladoye. Ghana Junior Atlas. Edited by E. A. Boateng. Both 11 × 8 ½. Pp. 33. London and Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., 1965. Nigeria 5s.     

Review

Letters of a Javanese Princess, by Raden Adjeng Kartini, translated by Agnes Louise Symmers (Hong Kong: Heinemann Educational Books (Asia) Ltd, 1976).     

Rhodesia: Report on the Administration of Rhodesia. The British South Africa Company. Impressions of South Africa. James Bryce

EUROPE

A Geography of Europe. Edited by George W. Hoffman. 9×6. Pp. ix+775. 156 figs. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1953. 52s 6d.

Die Landschaften der britischen Inseln. By Johann Sölch. 9 1/2×6 1/2. Erster Band. England und Wales. Pp. xii+1–850. Figs. 1–154. Zweiter Band. Schottland und Irland. Pp. 851–1350. Figs. 155–225. Wien : Springer‐Verlag. Vol. I, 1951. Vol. II, 1952. DM 232, or £19, 17s.

Scottish Industry : An Account of what Scotland makes and where she makes it. Edited by C. A. Oakley. Foreword by The Rt. Hon. Lord Bilsland, M.C., D.L., LL.D. 8 1/2×6. Pp. xvii+332. Plates. Sketch maps. Glasgow: The Scottish Council (Development and Industry). William Collins and Sons Ltd, 1953. 25s.

Orkney Miscellany. 8×6 1/2. Pp. 104. 6 illustrations. Kirkwall: Orkney Record and Antiquarian Society Papers, Vol. 1, 1953. 8s 6d.

The Glasgow Story. By Colm Brogan. 7 3/4×5. Pp. 223. Drawings by Keir. London : Frederick Muller Ltd, 1952. 15s.

Devonshire Studies. By W. G. Hoskins and H. P. R. Finberg. 8 3/4 × 5 6/8. Pp. 470. 8 plates. 11 maps and plans. London : Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1952. 36s.

In Search of Winter Sport. By Monk Gibbon. 8 3/4×5 5/8. Pp. 223. 17 illustrations. End‐paper sketch map. London: Evans Brothers Ltd, 1953. 18s.

Three Rivers of France: Dordogne, Lot, Tarn. By Freda White. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. 232. 49 illustrations. Map. London : Faber and Faber Ltd, 1952. 25s. Reprinted, 1953. 15s.

ASIA

South China in the Sixteenth Century : Being the Narratives of Galeote Pereira ; Fr. Gaspar da Cruz, O.P.; Fr. Martin de Rada, O.E.S.A. (1550–1575). Edited by C. R. Boxer. 8 3/4×5 5/8. Pp. xci+388. 8 figs. 12 plates. [Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. CVL] London. 1953. 40s.

AFRICA

The Suez Canal in World Affairs. By Hugh J. Schonfield. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. x+174. 9 illustrations. 2 sketch maps. [Constellation Books.] London : Vallentine, Mitchell and Co. Ltd, 1952. 15s.

AMERICA

Highland Settler : A Portrait of the Scottish Gael in Nova Scotia. By Charles W. Dunn. 9×6. Pp. xii+180. Frontispiece. 2 sketch maps. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1953. $4.00. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege. 32s.

POLAR REGIONS

John Roe's Correspondence with the Hudson's Bay Company on Arctic Exploration, 1844–1855. Edited by E. E. Rich, M.A., assisted by A. M. Johnson. Introduction by J. M. Wordie, C.B.E., and R. J. Cyriax. 9 1/2×6 1/2. Pp. cvi+401+xiv. 2 illustrations. Sketch map and 2 maps. London : The Publications of The Hudson's Bay Record Society, XVI, 1953.