New maps and atlases

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

Man, Location and Behaviour: An Introduction to Human Geography. By Kevin R. Cox. 10 1/4 × 7 1/4. 399 pp. Index. John Wiley, Chichester, 1972. £4.lb75.

Urban Geography—a social perspective. By David Herbert. 8 3/4 × 5 3/4. 320 pp., illustrations, maps, notes and index. David and Charles. Newton Abbot, 1972. £5.lb50.

Industrial Britain: South Wales. By Graham Humphrys. 10 × 6 1/4, 253 pp. maps, tables, photographs. David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1972 £4.lb75

The Making of the Dutch Landscape: An Historical Geography of the Netherlands. By A. M. Lambert. 412 pp., 101 figs., bibliography. Seminar Press, London and New York, 1971. £4.50.

ENVIRONMENTAL

Water in Britain. By Keith Smith. 8 3/4 × 5 1/2, 241 pp., maps, illustrations, tables, and index. Macmillan, 1972. £3.

Soil Geography by James G. Cruickshank. 256 pp., 26 plates, 43 maps and diagrams. David &; Charles, Newton Abbot, 1972. £1.lb95 (paper).

Shetland (Islands series). By James R. Nicolson. 246 pp. Illustrations, Bibliog., Index. David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1972. £3.lb25.

CARTOGRAPHY AND SURVEY

Co‐ordinate Systems and Map Projections. By D. H. Maling. 9 1/2 × 6 1/4. Geo. Philip, London, 1973. £2.lb75.

EDUCATIONAL

The Geography of the Earth as a Globe. By R. K. Gresswell and H. J. Cooper. 7 1/4 × 9 3/4. 140 pp. 158 figures, index. Hulton, Amersham, 1971. 85p.

A New School Geography, Vol. 4: North West Europe. By F. R. Dobson and H. E. Virgo. 6 1/4 × 9 1/4, 126 pp., illus. maps. English Universities Press, London. £1.lb10.

The Unclean Planet. By R. E. Baker and J. A. Bushell. 8 3/4 × 6 1/2. 128 pp. Numerous illus. Ginn, London, 1972. £1.lb25.

Weather Study, an approach to scientific inquiry. By J. W. Bainbridge and R. W. Stockdale. 6 3/4 × 7 1/2, 83 pp. Methuen Educational Ltd. 1972. Hardback £1–80, Paperback 95p.

Introducing the New Geography. Introducing Transportation Networks. By K. Briggs. 9 3/4 × 7 1/4, 48 pp. University of London Press, 1972. Paperback Textbook 40p, Pupil Workbook 20p.

A Geography of Settlements (Aspect Geographies). By F. S. Hudson. 8 3/4 × 5y, 382 pp. 150 photos. Bibliography. Index. MacDonald and Evans, London, 1970. £1.lb75.     

Land-beach-risk-scape: deciphering the motivators of risk-taking at the beach in Australia

Abstract

This article considers risk-taking associated with the popular leisure activity of beach going in Australia. It investigates the risk-taking proclivities and cultural protocols in Australian beach use which, to date, have received little research attention. Drawing on the testimonies of beachgoers, we provide a discussion on how risk can be both voluntary as well as accidental at the Australian beach. While accidental risk-taking can be attributed to a lack of beachscape safety or lack of hazard knowledge, it is often the result of peer, sociocultural and psychodynamic influences that result in the production and reproduction of a pervasive culture of risk-taking. This culture is explored via the influence of the enculturation of risk into Australian beach practices, the attenuation of safety perceptions among beachgoers, and the attraction to risky behaviours that affect those in the beach space. The reproduction of risk in Australian beach use and the feeling of attachment observed among research participants have been conceptualised as the embodied societal subject, as identified through geographic psychoanalysis. A psychoanalytic geographic interpretation of participant attitudes and beliefs concerning risk-taking and beach use has been used to theorise how the prevailing discourses and fantasies of Australian beach use shape this site-specific culture of risk.     

Lightening the Load: Five 19th-Century River Lighters at Erith on the River Thames, UK

Five early-19th-century Thames lighters, up to 22 m long, in an excellent state of preservation, were recorded during pre-construction archaeological works. The lighters had been used as the main structural elements in a mid-19th-century river-wall. The lighters and river-wall are described, and aspects of the construction discussed. The craft exemplify utilitarian trends in early industrial age boatbuilding, and were essential in the development of the international port. Although comparatively recent in date, details of their 'bottom-up' construction are not well known.
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