The Geographical Journal: Vol Cxxiv Part 2, June 1958
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
First published in 1893, The Geographical Journal stands as the pre-eminent scholarly publication of The Royal Geographical Society, chronicling the frontiers of geographical knowledge across every corner of the globe. This particular issue — Volume CXXIV, Part 2, dated June 1958 — presents a rich and remarkably diverse collection of academic articles and field reports, encompassing subjects from Australian coastal exploration in Antarctica and a new map of Southern Arabia, to pioneer maps of health and disease in England and the karst landscapes of Jamaica. The issue also details the findings of the Oxford University Expedition to Socotra, radioactive experiments tracking the movement of shingle over the sea bed, the deposition of silt by the irrigation waters of the Nile at Khartoum, and a sweeping survey of the rim of the Pacific — a true testament to the breadth of mid-twentieth-century geographical inquiry. Rooted in the Victorian tradition of scientific rigour and imperial exploration, yet thoroughly modern in its methodology, the journal illustrates the discipline's evolution into a sophisticated, data-driven science. Contributors such as Phillip Law, Douglas Bötting, and C. A. Cotton bring authority and precision to their respective fields, while reviews of works on Antarctic research and practical geography round out the issue with critical scholarly commentary. For collectors, researchers, and enthusiasts of the history of geographical science, this rare periodical offers an unparalleled window into the intellectual preoccupations of a world still mapping itself in the post-war era — a world on the cusp of the space age, yet still captivated by the mysteries of its own surface.
Author: Various Authors
Format: Paperback
Published: 1958, The Royal Geographical Society / John Murray (Publishers) Ltd, London
Genre: Geography & Earth science
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
First published in 1893, The Geographical Journal stands as the pre-eminent scholarly publication of The Royal Geographical Society, chronicling the frontiers of geographical knowledge across every corner of the globe. This particular issue — Volume CXXIV, Part 2, dated June 1958 — presents a rich and remarkably diverse collection of academic articles and field reports, encompassing subjects from Australian coastal exploration in Antarctica and a new map of Southern Arabia, to pioneer maps of health and disease in England and the karst landscapes of Jamaica. The issue also details the findings of the Oxford University Expedition to Socotra, radioactive experiments tracking the movement of shingle over the sea bed, the deposition of silt by the irrigation waters of the Nile at Khartoum, and a sweeping survey of the rim of the Pacific — a true testament to the breadth of mid-twentieth-century geographical inquiry. Rooted in the Victorian tradition of scientific rigour and imperial exploration, yet thoroughly modern in its methodology, the journal illustrates the discipline's evolution into a sophisticated, data-driven science. Contributors such as Phillip Law, Douglas Bötting, and C. A. Cotton bring authority and precision to their respective fields, while reviews of works on Antarctic research and practical geography round out the issue with critical scholarly commentary. For collectors, researchers, and enthusiasts of the history of geographical science, this rare periodical offers an unparalleled window into the intellectual preoccupations of a world still mapping itself in the post-war era — a world on the cusp of the space age, yet still captivated by the mysteries of its own surface.