Geogeaphical notes

EUROPE.

Danish Life in Town and Country. By Jessie Bröchner. London : George Newnes, Limited. 3s. 6d. net.

AFRICA.

The Portuguese Expedition to Abyssinia in 1541–1543 as narrated by Castanhoso. Translated and edited by R. S. Whitewat, B.C.S. London : Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1902. Pp. 296.

The Advance of our West African Empire. By C. Braithwaite Wallis, of the Cameronians. Late Acting District Commissioner Sierra Leone Protectorate. London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1903. Pp. 318. Price 21s.

AMERICA

Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada. By Clarence King. London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1903.

The Discoveries of the Norsemen in America, with Special Relation to their Early Cartographical Representation. By Joseph Fischer, S.J. Translated from the German by Basil H. Soulsby, B.A. London : Henry Stevens, Son, and Stiles, 1903.

GENERAL.

Johann Keppler, der Gesetzgeber der neueren Astronomie. Ein Lebensbild. Von Adolf Müller, S.J. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder'sche Verlagshandlung, 1903. Pp. ii + 181.

The British Empire Year Booh, 1903. An annual statistical volume of reference compiled with the assistance of H.M. Imperial and Colonial Governments. By Edgar G. Wall, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. London: Edward Stanford. Price £1, 1s.

Physician and Friend: Alexander Grant, F.R.C.S. Edited by George Smith, C.I.E., LL.D. London : John Murray, 1902. Price 10s. 6d.     

Short notes

Anna Coote and Beatrix Campbell, Sweet Freedom : The Struggle for Women's Liberation, London, Picador, 1982, pp 258. $5.95

Joan Coxsedge, Ken Coldicutt and Gerry Harant, Rooted in Secrecy—the Clandestine Element in Australian Politics, Melbourne, Committee for the Abolition of Political Police, 1982, pp. 250. $12.95

Malcolm I. Thomis and Jennifer Grimmett, Women in Protest 1800–1850, London and Canberra, Croom Helm, 1982, pp. 166. $21.95

Politics and Power 3: Sexual Politics, Feminism and Socialism, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981, pp. 310 £5.95 (paper)

Gail Warshofsky Lapidus (ed) Women, Work, and Family in the Soviet Union, Armonk, N.Y., M.E. Sharpe, 1982, pp. 311. US$22.50

D.B. Waterson and John Arnold, Biographical Register of the Queensland Parliament 1930–1980, Canberra, ANU Press, 1982, pp. 144. $10.95

Noel Tracy, The Origins of the Social Democratic Party, London and Canberra, Croom Helm, 1983, pp.69 £5.95     

Geographical notes

An earlier reference to the term ‘social geography’ than those described by Dunbar (Scot. Geog. Mag., 93 (1977) 15–20) has been identified in a MS. by H. Gougeon dated 1873. The broader circumstances of the movement to reform geography teaching and the secondary school curriculum at the beginning of the IIIrd Republic are described as a necessary context for evaluating the Gougeon MS. An English translation of Gougeon's views of ‘social geography’ is provided, and although his outline provides no more than a sketch of the possible content of social geography several of the traditional topics of this sub‐field are readily recognizable.     

Book notes

Paul Boreham, Alec Pemberton and Paul Wilson, (eds.), The Professions in Australia, A Critical Appraisal. University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1976, pp. 290 + vii, $8.50, $12.95 cloth.

Goldstein, Ray, and Alley, Rod, (eds.), Labour in Power: Promise and Performance, Price Milburn for New Zealand University Press, Wellington, 1975, pp. 200, $3.96.     

Book notes

J. F. Cairns, Silence Kills: Events leading up to the Vietnam Moratorium on 8 May, The Vietnam Moratorium Committee, Richmond, 1970, pp. 104, $2.95.

Peter J. Fensham (ed.), Rights and Inequality in Australian Education, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1970, pp. 212 + xv, $2.95.

J. O. N. Perkins and J. E. Sullivan, Banks and the Capital Market: An Australian Study, Melbourne University Press, 1970, pp. 123 + ix, $2.40.

R. T. Appleyard (ed.), Man and His Environment, University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 1970, pp. 198 + xxii, $3.90. Distributor in eastern States: M.U.P.

Ray Aitchison, From Bob to Bungles: People in Politics 1966–70, Sun Books, Melbourne, 1970, pp. 264 + xviii, $1.95.

J. P. Nieuwenhuysen (ed.), Australian Trade Practices: Readings, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1970, pp. 331 + xxv, $4.25.

Jonathan Anderson, Berry H. Durston, Millicent Poole, Thesis and Assignment Writing, John Wiley, Sydney, 1970, pp. 135 + ix, $1.95.

Elisabeth T. Crawford and Albert D. Biderman (eds.), Social Scientists and International Affairs: A Case for a Sociology of Social Science, John Wiley, New York, 1969, pp. 333 + xv, $11.95.