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CALVINISTS INCORPORATED: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier. By Anne Kelly Knowles . THE RAIN FORESTS OF HOME: Profile of a North American Bioregion. Edited by Peter K. Schoonmaker , Bettina von Hagen , and Edward C. Wolf . CONSERVATION THROUGH CULTURAL SURVIVAL: Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas. Edited by Stan Stevens . THE END OF THE PEASANTRY: The Rural Labor Movement in Northeast Brazil, 1961–1988. By Anthony W. Pereira . THIRDSPACE: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-and-Imagined Places. By Edward W. Soja . ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: People, Politics and Sustainable Development. Edited by Michael J. G. Parnwell and Raymond L. Bryant . TRADITION AND REFORM: Land Tenure and Rural Development in South-East Asia. By Mark Cleary and Peter Eaton . WILD CHINA. Text by John Mac Kinnon ; photographs by Nigel Hicks . JAPANESE AMERICANS: The Formation and Transformations of an Ethnic Group. By Paul R. Spickard . THE JAPANESE CITY. Edited by Pradyumna P. Karan and Kristin Stapleton . THE EMPTINESS OF JAPANESE AFFLUENCE. By Gavan Mc Cormack . GÉOGRAPHIE DE LA NUIT. By Luc Bureau . RUSSIA AND THE POST-SOVIET SCENE: A Geographical Perspective. By James H. Bater . HOMO GEOGRAPHICUS: A Framework for Action, Awareness, and Moral Concern. By Robert David Sack . STRATEGIC GEOGRAPHY AND THE CHANGING MIDDLE EAST. By Geoffrey Kemp and Robert E. Harkavy .     

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THE RETREAT OF THE ELEPHANTS: An Environmental History of China. By Mark Elvin. HISTORIES OF THE BORNEO ENVIRONMENT: Economic, Political and Social Dimensions of Change and Continuity. Edited by Reed L. Wadley. MODERNIZING NATURE: Forestry and Imperial Eco‐Development 1800–1950. By S. Ravi Rajan. ROUTE 66: Iconography of the American Highway. By Arthur Krim. Edited by Denis Wood. CITY BOUNTIFUL: A Century of Community Gardening in America. By Laura J. Lawson. OVERTHROWING GEOGRAPHY: Jaffa, Tel Aviv, and the Struggle for Palestine, 1880–1948. By Mark Le Vine. IN THE SPACE OF THEORY: Postfoundational Geographies of the Nation‐State. By Matthew Sparke. SPATIAL INEQUALITY AND DEVELOPMENT. Edited by Ravi Kanbur and Anthony J. Venables. DEMONIC GROUNDS: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle. By Katherine Mc Kittrick. CITIES OF THE WORLD: A History in Maps. By Peter Whitfield.     

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THE LIE OF THE LAND: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape. By Don Mitchell . LOST LANDSCAPES AND FAILED ECONOMIES: The Search for a Value of Place. By Thomas Michael Power . THE ORGANIC MACHINE: The Remaking of the Columbia River. By Richard White . ENTITLEMENTS TO NATURAL RESOURCES: Contours of Political Environmental Geography. By Ton Dietz . ECOLOGY AND EQUITY: The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India. BY Madhav Gadgil and Ramchandra Guha . NEPAL: A Himalayan Kingdom in Transition. By Pradyumna P. Karan and Hiroshi Ishii . ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS: Ideas, Politics and Planning. By J. Douglas Porteous . PICTURING KNOWLEDGE: Historical and Philosophical Problems Concerning the Use of Art in Science. Edited by Brian S. Baigrie . TAKING MEASURES ACROSS THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE. By James Corner and Alex S. Mac Lean . SPACES OF IDENTITY: Global Media, Electronic Landscapes and Cultural Boundaries. By David Morley and Kevin Robins TREE MANAGEMENT IN FARMER STRATEGIES: Responses to Agricultural Intensification. Edited by J. E. Michael Arnold and Peter A. Dewees . THE GREAT FLOOD OF 1993: Causes, Impacts, and Responses. Edited by Stanley A. Chagnon . DECIDING TO BE LEGAL: A Maya Community in Houston. By Jacqueline Maria Hagan . THE PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF AFRICA. Edited by W. M. Adams , A. S. Goudie , and A. R. Orme . THE DESTRUCTION OF SODOM, GOMORRAH, AND JERICHO: Geological, Climatological, and Archaeological Background. By David Neev and K. O. Emery . THE FROZEN ECHO: Greenland and the Exploration of North America ca. a.d. 1000–1500. By Kirsten A. Seaver . OLIVES: The Life and Lore of the Noble Fruit. By Mort Rosenblum .     

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CONSERVANCY: The Land Trust Movement in America. By RICHARD BREWER. CONTEMPORARY MEANINGS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY: From What to Why? Edited by STEPHEN TRUDGILL and ANDRÉ ROY. GAINING GROUND: A History of Landmaking in Boston. By NANCY S. SEASHOLES. CHANGING MINES IN AMERICA. By PETER GOIN and C. ELIZABETH RAYMOND. PLANTING NATURE: Trees and the Manipulation of Environmental Stewardship in America. By SHAUL E. COHEN. SEEING THE FOREST AND THE TREES: Human‐Environment Interactions in Forest Ecosystems. Edited by EMILIO F. MORAN and ELINOR OSTROM. LANDSCAPE AND IMAGES. By JOHN STILGOE.     

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THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGINATION: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture. By Lawrence Buell . HUMAN IMPACT ON THE EARTH. By William B. Meyer . ECOSYSTEM GEOGRAPHY. By Robert G. Bailey ; illustrated by Lev Ropes LAND USE AND SOCIETY: Geography, Law, and Public Policy. By Rutherford H. Platt . CAUGHT IN THE NET: The Conflict between Shrimpers and Conservationists. By Anthony V. Margavio and Craig J. Forsyth . BRING BACK THE BUFFALO! A Sustainable Future for America's Great Plains. By Ernest Callenbach . GUIDE TO KANSAS ARCHITECTURE. By David H. Sachs and George Ehrlich . RELIGION AND WINE: A Cultural History of Wine Drinking in the United States. By Robert C. Fuller . THE PROMISE OF PARADISE: Recreational and Retirement Communities in the United States since 1950. By Hubert B. Stroud . ERRANT JOURNEYS: Adventure Travel in a Modern Age. By David Zurick . THE DUST ROSE LIKE SMOKE: The Subjugation of the Zulu and Sioux. By James O. Gump . THE PEOPLING OF AFRICA: A Geographic Interpretation. By James L. Newman . THE MAGIC MOUNTAINS: Hill Stations and the British Raj. By Dane Kennedy . THE GENIUS OF C. WARREN THORNTHWAITE, CLIMATOLOGIST-GEOGRAPHER. By John R. Mather and Marie Sanderson .     

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Book reviewed in this article: THOREAU's COUNTRY: Journey through a Transformed Landscape. By David R. Foster . VISIONS OF PARADISE: Glimpses of Our Landscape's Legacy. By John Warfield Simpson . CREATING COLORADO: The Making of a Western American Landscape, 1860–1940. By William Wyckoff . THE DAWN OF CONSERVATION DIPLOMACY: U.S.-Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era. By Kurkpatrick Dorsey . ORGANIZING THE LANDSCAPE: Geographical Perspectives on Labor Unionism. Edited by Andrew Herod GREEN LAND, BROWN LAND, BLACK LAND: An Environmental History of Africa, 1800–1990. By James C. Mc Cann . RED CAPITALISM IN SOUTH CHINA: Growth and Development of the Pearl River Delta. By George C. S. Lin . PILLAR OF SAND: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? By Sandra Postel. xv THE CHACO MERIDIAN: Centers of Political Power in the Ancient Southwest. By Stephen H. Lekson .     

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Book reviewed in this article: THE SHAPING OF AMERICA: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History. Vol. 3: TRANSCONTINENTAL AMERICA, 1850–1915. By D. W. Meinig . SIERRA CROSSING: First Roads to California. By Thomas Frederick Howard . BATTLING THE ELEMENTS: Weather and Terrain in the Conduct of War. By Harold A. Winters , with Gerald E. Galloway Jr ., William J. Reynolds , and David W. Rhyne . ECONOMY AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE CARIBBEAN: Barbados and the Windwards in the Late 1800s. By Bonham C. Richardson THIRD WORLD POLITICAL ECOLOGY. By Raymond L. Bryant and Sinéad Bailey HERITAGE ON STAGE: The Invention of Ethnic Place in America's Little Switzerland. By Steven D. Hoelscher .     

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POLITICAL ECOLOGY: A Critical Introduction. By Paul Robbins . CITIES, WAR, AND TERRORISM: Towards an Urban Geopolitics. Edited by Stephen Graham . THE CITY AS SUBURB: A History of Northeast Baltimore since 1660. By Eric L. Holcomb . HISPANIC SPACES, LATINO PLACES: Community and Cultural Diversity in Contemporary America. Edited by Daniel D. Arreola . RHUMB LINES AND MAP WARS: A Social History of the Mercator Projection. By Mark Monmonier . THE POLITICAL MAPPING OF CYBERSPACE. By Jeremy W. Crampton . THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE INTERNET INDUSTRY Venture Capital, Dot‐Coms, and Local Knowledge. By Matthew A. Zook .     

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Book reviewed in this article: ATLAS DE MAPAS HISTÓRICOS DE HONDURAS/HONDURAS, AN ATLAS OF HISTORICAL MAPS. By William Van Davidson. CITIES OF EUROPE: Changing Contexts, Local Arrangements, and the Challenge to Urban Cohesion. Edited by Yuri Kazepov. THE IDEA OF LATIN AMERICA. By Walter D. Mignolo. MAGNOLIAS WITHOUT MOONLIGHT: The American South from Regional Confederacy to National Integration. By Sheldon Hackney. BORDER LANDSCAPES: The Politics of Akha Land Use in China and Thailand. By Janet C. Sturgeon. SECOND GROWTH: Community Economic Development in Rural British Columbia. By Sean Markey, John T. Pierce, Kelly Vodden, and Mark Roseland. LIVING WITH THE CHANGING CALIFORNIA COAST. By Gary Griggs, Kiki Patsch, and Lauret Savoy. CHICAGO: A Geography of the City and Its Region. By John C. Hudson.     

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WHERE THERE ARE MOUNTAINS: An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians. By Donald Edward Davis. THE MONTEREY BAY SHORELINE GUIDE. By Jerry Emory PHILOSOPHY AND GEOGRAPHY III: Philosophies of Place. Edited by Andrew Light and Jonathan M. Smith. DELTA SUGAR: Louisiana's Vanishing Plantation Landscape. By John B. Rehder. SHADOWS IN THE FOREST: Japan and the Politics of Timber in Southeast Asia. THE RADIANCE OF FRANCE: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II. By Gabrielle Hecht. SECURE FROM RASH ASSAULT: Sustaining the Victorian Environment. By James Winter . THE WILD AND THE DOMESTIC: Animal Representation, Ecocriticism, and Western American Literature. By Barney Nelson     

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Book reviewed in this article: THE SHAPING OF AMERICA: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History. Vol. 4: Global America , 1915–2000. By D. W. Meinig THE PLANTING OF NEW VIRGINIA: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley. By Warren R. Hofstra CUMBERLAND ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE: A History of Conservation Conflict. By Lary M. Dilsaver AN UNNATURAL METROPOLIS: Wresting New Orleans from Nature. By Craig E. Colten BLACK ROCK. By Peter Goin and Paul F. Starrs RAMONA MEMORIES: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California. By Dydia De Lyser LANDSCAPES IN MUSIC: Space, Place, and Time in the World's Great Music. By David B. Knight     

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Book reviewed in this article: AMERICAN EMPIRE: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization. By Neil Smith . THE NEW IMPERIALISM. By David Harvey . DECOLONIZING NATURE: Strategies for Conservation in a Post‐Colonial Era. Edited by William M. Adams and Martin Mulligan . CONTESTED NATURE: Promoting International Biodiversity with Social Justice in the Twenty‐First Century. Edited by Steven R. Brechin , Peter R. Wilshusen , Crystal L. Fortwangler , and Patrick C. West . IN THE TIME OF TREES AND SORROWS: Nature, Power, and Memory in Rajasthan. By Ann Grodzins Gold and Bhoju Ram Gujar . THE FARM AS NATURAL HABITAT: Reconnecting Food Systems with Ecosystems. Edited by Dana L. Jackson and Laura L. Jackson .     

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Book reviewed in this article:
HE KORERO PURAKAU MO NGA TAUNAHANA-HATANGA A NGA TUPUNA. PLACE NAMES OF THE ANCESTORS. A MAORI ORAL HISTORY ATLAS.
NGA TOHU PUMAHARA. THE SURVEY PEGS OF THE PAST. UNDERSTANDING MAORI PLACE NAMES.
BANKS PENINSULA: CRADLE OF CANTERBURY. By Gordon Ogilvie
THE ECONOMICS OF PART-TIME FARMING. By Ruth Gasson
FROM BUSH-BURN TO BUTTER. By Eric Warr
THE WAKE OF ERASMUS: SAINTS, SCHOLARS, AND STUDIA IN MEDIAEVAL NORDEN. By Anne Buttimer
THE SORROW AND THE PRIDE. NEW ZEALAND WAR MEMORIALS. By C. Maclean and J. Phillips
CITIES IN SPACE: CITIES AS PLACE. By D. T. Herbert and C. J. Thomas
TE IWI MAORI. A NEW ZEALAND POPULATION, PAST, PRESENT, AND PROJECTED. By I. Pool
Department of History Massey University
ANTARCTICA AND GLOBAL CLIMATIC CHANGE. Edited by Colin Harris and Bernard Stonehouse
FARM WOMEN IN PIAKO COUNTY. By M. Begg.
GEOGRAPHERS ON FIJI: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. By R. Chandra, Suva     

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FINDING THE WALLS OF TROY: Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik. By Susan Heuck Allen . THE WORLD OF ANDRÉ LE NÔTRE. By Thierry Mariage . Translated by Graham Larkin . “WHAT NATURE SUFFERS TO GROE”: Life, Labor, and Landscape on the Georgia Coast, 1680–1920. By Mart A. Stewart . SURVEYING THE RECORD: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930. Edited by Edward C. Carter II. BEYOND THE NEON LIGHTS: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century. By Hanchao Lu . LIVING HERITAGE: Vernacular Environment in China. Edited by Kai ‐Yin FROM AZTEC TO HIGH TECH: Architecture and Landscape across the Mexico‐United States Border. By Lawrence A. Herzog . SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN: An Environmental History of the Twentieth‐Century World. By J. R. McNeill .     

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WITH A CAMERA IN MY HANDS: William O. Field NATURAL HAZARDS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE. By BILL MCGUIRE, IAN MASON, and CHRISTOPHER KILBURN. POLITICAL ECOLOGY An Integrative Approach to Geography and Environment‐Development Studies. Edited by KARL s. ZIMMERER and THOMAS J. BASSETT. INVENTING THE CHARLES RIVER. By KARL HAGLUND. COMMUNITY ON LAND: Community, Ecology, and the Public Interest. By JANEL M. CURRY and STEVEN MCGUIRE. THE TIGER AND THE PANGOLIN: Nature, Culture, and Conservation in China. By CHRIS COGGINS. LE PAYSAGE ANIMAL: L'homme et la grande faune: Une zoogéographié histo‐By XAVIER DE PLANHOL.     

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Book reviewed in this article: TRANSNATIONALISM AND NEW AFRICAN IMMIGRATION TO SOUTH AFRICA. Edited by Jonathan Crush and David A. McDonald . WALKING THE TIGHT ROPE: Informal Livelihoods and Social Networks in a West African City. By Ilda Lourenço ‐Lindell . EGYPT: An Economic Geography. By Fouad N. Ibrahim and Barbara Ibrahim . SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS IN KALAHARI ENVIRONMENTS: Contributions to Global Debates. Edited by Deborah Sporton and David S. G. Thomas . CLIMATE CHANGE & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: Prospects for Developing Countries. Edited by Anil Markandya and Kirsten Halsnaes . THE STRAITS OF MALACCA: Gateway or Gauntlet? By Donald B. Freeman .     

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Book reviewed in this article: THE EVOLUTION OF POLYNESIAN CHIEFDOMS. Patrick Vinton Kirch. AN INDUSTRIAL GEOGRAPHY OF JAPAN. Edited by K. Murata. THE NATURE OF PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. By K. J. Gregory, Edward Arnold. SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY IN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE. Edited by J. Eyles. SILCON LANDSCAPES. Edited by P. Hall and A. Markusen. Allen and Unwin. GEOGRAPHY MATTERS! A READER. Edited by D. Massey and J. Allen. REGIONS IN QUESTION: SPACE, DEVELOPMENT THEORY AND REGIONAL POLICY, by C. Gore, Methuen. A GEOGRAPHICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR AMERICAN LIBRARIES. Edited by Chauncy D. Harris. DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS, RED OR GREEN ALTERNATIVES? By Michael Redclift, Methuen THE MAKING OF NEW ZEALAND: AN ECONOMIC HISTORY. By G. R. Hawke. GEOMORPHOLOGY. By R. J. Chorley, S. A. Schumm and D. E. Sugden.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
INTRODUCING THE MANAWATU. Edited by A. G. Anderson and B. G. R. Saunders
LANDSCAPE DRAWING. By Geoffrey E. Hutchings.
THE CHANGING MAP OF ASIA: A POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY. Edited by W. G. East and O. H. K. Spate.
ATLAS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. By Norton Ginsburg     

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ARIDLAND SPRINGS IN NORTH AMERICA: Ecology and Conservation. Edited by Lawrence E. Stevens and Vicky J. Meretsky TRINCHERAS SITES IN TIME, SPACE, AND SOCIETY. Edited by Suzanne K. Fish , Paul R. Fish , and M. Elisa Villalpando THE TASTE OF PLACE: A Cultural Journey into Terroir. By Amy B. Trubek THE GROWTH AND COLLAPSE OF PACIFIC ISLAND SOCIETIES: Archaeological and Demographic Perspectives. Edited by Patrick V. Kirch and Jean –Louis Rallu LEPROSY AND EMPIRE: A Medical and Cultural History. By Rod Edmond EMOTIONAL GEOGRAPHIES. Edited by Joyce Davidson , Liz Bondi , and Mick Smith     

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Book reviewed in this article: GEOGRAPHY AND RETAILING. By Peter Scott. LANDFORMS OF COLD CLIMATES. By J. L. Davies. ATLAS OF BUNDALEER PLAINS AND TATALA. By F. M. Rothery. (Introduction by N. G. Butlin and J. N. Jennings.) THE EUROPEAN PEASANTRY: THE FINAL PHASE. By S. H. Franklin. AUSTRALIA WET OR DRY? THE PHYSICAL AND ECONOMIC LIMITS TO THE EXPANSION OF IRRIGATION. By B. R. Davidson. THE SEARCH FOR THE ISLANDS OF SOLOMON 1567–1838. By Colin Jack-Hinton. CAPITALISM PRIMITIVE AND MODERN. By T. Scarlett Epstein. PACIFIC MARKET PLACES. Edited by H. C. Brookfield. WEST AFRICA. By W. B. Morgan andj. C. Pugh. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS IN GEOGRAPHY. By Leslie J. King. PATTERNS OF INDUSTRIES. By R. S. Mathieson. PATTERNS OF CITIES. By A. J. Rose. ADMINISTRATION IN NEW ZEALAND'S MULTI-RACIAL SOCIETY. Edited by R. H. Brookes and I. H. Kawharu. ANTARCTIC MAP FOLIO SERIES. Folio 7, Glaciers of the Antarctic. By J. Mercer; and Folio 8, The Antarctic Atmosphere: Climatology of the Surface Environment. By W. S. Weyant. THE ARID ZONES. By K. Walton. LAND USE CAPABILITY SURVEY HANDBOOK. Water and Soil Division, Ministry of Works, Wellington QUANTITATIVE GEOGRAPHY. By John P. Cole and Cuchlaine A. M. King. AN INTRODUCTION TO QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS IN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY. By Maurice H. Ycatcs. URBAN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND: A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY TO 1966. By G. Breese. ARID LANDS OP AUSTRALIA. Edited by R. O. Slatyer and R. A. Perry. GROWTH OF THE WORLD'S URBAN AND RURAL POPULATION, 1920–2000. READINGS IN CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY. Edited by Robert M. Irving. CANADA: A GEOGRAPHICAL INTERPRETATION. Edited by John Warkentin. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED: Notice of a book on these pages does not preclude its subsequent review in New Zealand Geographer or New Zealand Journal of Geography Australia New Zealand and the South-West Pacific. By J. H. Holmes. North West England. By W. E. Marsden. Geographical Digest. Edited by Harold Fullard. Landscape Studies. By J. H. Shaw and F. G. Kirkwood. Antarctica. By John Bechervaise. Hong Kong and the Philippines. By John Whiteley. The European Peasantry. By S. H. Franklin. Physical and Information Models in Geography. Edited by Richard J. Chorley and Peter Haggett. Integrated Models in Geography. Edited by Richard J. Chorley and Peter Haggett. Mt. Wilhelm Studies I: The Alpine and Subalpine Vegetation. By L. K. Wade and D. N. McVean. World Problems: A Topic Geography. By M. Long and B. S. Roberson. Matupit: Land, Politics and Change among the Tolai of New Britain. By A. L. Epstein. Brother Wohlers. By Sheila Natusch. The Camel in Australia. By Tom. L. McKnight. South Australia From the Air. Edited by Michael Williams. Fiji in the Pacific. By G. T. A. Kerr and T. A. Donnelly. North West Europe. By F. R. Dobson and H. E. Virgo. Senior Geography. By V. G. Honour, D. Hopley and A. R. Dyer. Macquarie Island. By J. S. Compston. Atlas Four. Edited by J. David Thompson. Europe in Maps. By R. Knowles and P. D. E. Stowc. The Arid Lands. R. L. Heathcote and C. R. Twidale. Fishing. By R. S. Mathieson. Wheat. By Hylda A. Rolfe.