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To cite this article: (1951) Seventeenth international geographical congress,Scottish Geographical Magazine, 67:1, 63-63

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REVIEWS OF BOOKS 63

GENERAL

This My Voyage. By TOM LONGSTAFF. 8 | X 5 . Pp. xii+324. 23 plates. 15 sketchmaps. London : John Murray, 1950. 21s.

Few mountaineers have a wider experience, and none can write of his adventureswith greater charm and vividness, than Dr Longstaff. He tells the tale of climbingin many parts of the world and of the conquest of many hitherto unsealed peaks.To one who is no climber some of his victories seem incredible; to the climberthey give useful indication of the route to follow. Relatively late in life his wander-ings took Dr Longstaff to Greenland and Spitsbergen more as a naturalist than asa climber and explorer. The chapters on travel in Tibet and Nepal succeed especi-ally in giving the colour and atmosphere of little-known lands, and the Greenlandand Spitsbergen pages give a picture of the life of arctic lands, birds and plantsand the ever-menacing pack-ice.

The volume is in the first rank of travel books. For a second edition, whichassuredly will be asked for, some trifling slips might be corrected : Neale, notKoettlitz, was Leigh Smith's surgeon ; Cagni, not the Duke of the Abruzzi, beatNansen's northern record ; after Nansen's journey, Nansen did not take the Framthrough Bering Strait.

There are many excellent photographs and maps. Altogether a delightful book.R. N. R. B.

MAPS

A Descriptive List of the Printed Maps of Northamptonshire, A.D. 15^6-1900. By HAROLDWHITAKER,HON.PH.D. (LEEDS). g|x6. Pp.xvi+216. 13illustrations. [North-amptonshire Record Society Publications, 1949, Vol. XIV.] Northampton :The Northamptonshire Record Society, 1948. 25*. Postage grf.

Dr Whitaker's many contributions to the history of county cartography areinvaluable for reference. His annotated list of 691 maps of Northamptonshire,arranged in chronological order, with a tabular alphabetical index, is precededby a brief survey of English county maps and map catalogues. The list is embellishedwith reproductions of John Norden's manuscript Delineation of Northamptonshire(1591) and of other interesting maps of the county. J. H. K.

SEVENTEENTH INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL CONGRESS

The National Committee of the United States, International GeographicalUnion, announces the establishment of a special committee to assist geographerswho are planning to attend the seventeenth International Geographical Congress tobe held in Washington, D.C., in 1952. Dr Clyde F. Kohn, a member of the NationalCommittee, has been appointed Chairman. The purpose of the special committeeis to devise ways and means for supplying financial and other help to visiting geo-graphers. It is planned that grants-in-aid and other forms of financial assistancewill be provided to a limited number of foreign delegates. These funds will bemade available in the United States following the delegates arrival. Wheneverfeasible, lecture engagements will be arranged for those delegates who wish to availthemselves of such opportunities.

Geographers who wish to attend the Congress, but will need assistance in orderto do so, are invited to write to Dr Kohn, Department of Geography, NorthwesternUniversity, Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A.

ERRATUM

Owing to a draughtsman's error " Sverdrupbyen " was misplaced on p. 174,S.G.M., 66 {3-4). Its position is given correctly in the text.

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