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Polly Miller and Leon Gordon Miller. LOST HERITAGE OF ALASKA. Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1967. 289 pages. $15.00.

R. Kay Gresswell. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. Praeger Surveys in Geography. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., 1967. viii + 504 pages. $7.00.

David E. Sopher. GEOGRAPHY OF RELIGIONS. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1967. 128 pages. Paperbound, $1.95. Clothbound, $4.50.

Howard G. Roepke, ed. READINGS IN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY. New York: 3 John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1967. 662 pages. $6.95. Paper, $4.95.     

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Clyde Wahrhaftig. PHYSIOGRAPHIC DIVISIONS OF ALASKA. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 482. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1965. iv + 52 pages, maps, plates, photographs. $5.50.

Joseph A. Wraight, OUR DYNAMIC WORLD: A Survey in Modern Geography. Philadelphia: Chilton, 1966. Maps, photos, index, figs., ref. 286 pages. $7.95.

Leslie Symonds. AGRICULTURAL GEOGRAPHY. Praeger Surveys in Economic Geography, R. O. Buchanan, General Editor. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967. 283 pages, maps, diagrams, tables, bibliography, index. $7.00.

John Kirtland Wright. HUMAN NATURE IN GEOGRAPHY. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1966. xx + 371 pages. $10.00.

A. Bekki, ed. JAPANESE GEOGRAPHY 1966: ITS RECENT TRENDS. (Special Publication No. 1). Tokyo, Japan: The Association of Japanese Geographers, 1966. 190 pages. $7.00.     

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Norman J. G. Pounds. EUROPE AND THE SOVIET UNION. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966. 528 pages. $9.95.

T. R. Tregear. A GEOGRAPHY OF CHINA. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1965. 342 pages, bibliography, index. $7.95.

Michael Chisholm. GEOGRAPHY AND ECONOMICS. London: G. Bell & Sons, 1966. ix + 230 pages, 8 maps and diagrams, references. $6.50.

Charles H. Cotter. THE ASTRONOMICAL AND MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS OF GEOGRAPHY. New York: American Elsevier Publishing Company, 1966. 244 pages, 52 figures. $7.00.     

Helping Students See What's There

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John P. Augelli, editor. CARIBBEAN LANDS: A GEOGRAPHY. Grand Rapids, Michigan: The Fideler Company, 1965. 352 pages, illustrated, maps, study guides and aids, glossary with pronunciation key, and index. $2.91.

Arthur N. Strahler. INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1965. 455 pages. $7.50.

Paul F. Griffin and Ronald L. Chatham. INTRODUCTORY COLLEGE GEOGRAPHY. Sun Francisco: Fearon Publishers, 1965. xiv + 402 pages with illustrations, maps, index. $8.00.     

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Herman Friis, ed. THE PACIFIC BASIN, A HISTORY OF ITS GEOGRAPHICAL EXPLORATION. Special Publication No. 38. New York: The American Geographical Society under support of National Science Foundation, 1967. 457 pages, maps, illus., bibliography, index. $12.00.

J. Wreford Watson, J. Oliver and C. H. Foggo. A GEOGRAPHY OF BERMUDA. London: Collins, 1965. 128 pages, 41 maps and diagrams, 27 photographs. $3.00.

Glenn T. Trewartha, Arthur H. Robinson, Edwin H. Hammond. ELEMENTS OF GEOGRAPHY. 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967. 660 pages. $9.95.     

Conservation and the Nature of Social Problems: A Proposed Shift in Emphasis

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Ronald Freedman (ed.). POPULATION: THE VITAL REVOLUTION. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1964. 274 pages. $5.00.

Efraim Orni and Elisha Efrat. GEOGRAPHY OF ISRAEL. Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1964. 335 pages. $7.50.

SOURCE BOOK FOR GEOGRAPHY TEACHING. London: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1965. Distributed by UNESCO. xvi + 254 pages. $4.50.

T. W. Birch. MAPS TOPOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL. (Second ed.). London: Oxford University Press, 1964. xiv + 240 pages, illustrated. $4.00.

Harry D. Berg, editor. EVALUATION IN SOCIAL STUDIES. 35th Yearbook of the National Council for the Social Studies. Washington, D.C.: the Council, 1965. 250 pages. Paper $4.00. Cloth $5.00.

Farrington Daniels. DIRECT USE OF THE SUN'S ENERGY. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1964. 374 pages, maps, illustrations, bibliographies, index. Paperback, $2.45.     

Notes On Penguins

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Richard Dillon. MERIWETHER LEWIS: A BIOGRAPHY. Coward-McCann, Inc., New York, 1965 xvii + 364 pages, illustrations, index. $6.95.

James W. Simmons. THE CHANGING PATTERN OF RETAIL LOCATION. Department of Geography Research Paper No. 92. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 1964. x + 193 pages with table of contents, 48 illustrations and selected bibliography. $4.00.

Sam and Beryle Epstein. THE FIRST BOOK OF SWITZERLAND. Franklin Watts, Inc., 575 Lexington Ave., New York 22, N.Y., 1964. 85 pages including index and 68 pictures. $2.50.

George F. Carter. MAN AND THE LAND: A CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY. Holt, Rine-hard and Winston, Inc., New York, 1964. xiv + 496 pages with table of contents, maps, photographs, bibliography, and index. $9.95.

Zoe A. Thralls, Edward L. Biller, and William H. Hartley. THE WORLD AROUND US, REVISED EDITION. Harcourt, Brace, and World, Inc., New York, 1965. 512 pages with table of contents, list of maps, pictures, reference section, glossary, and index. $5.80.     

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Edgar T. Thompson and Everett C. Hughes, Editors. RACE—INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR. Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1958. Also London: Collier-Macmillan, Ltd., 619 pages, bibliography, index of contributors. $7.50

THE WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA. Fiftieth Anniversary Edition. Chicago, III.: Field Enterprises Educational Corporation, 1966. 20 volumes.

John C. Bollens and Henry J. Schmandt. THE METROPOLIS: ITS PEOPLE, POLITICS, AND ECONOMIC LIFE. New York: Harper and Row, Inc., 1965. xvi + 643 pages, with table of contents, maps, bibliography and indexes. $7.50.

Kirtley F. Mather. THE EARTH BENEATH US. New York: Random House, 1964. 320 large pages (8 1/2 × 11 inches), 240 photographic illustrations (116 in color), index. ($12.95) $15.00.

J. R. V. Prescott. THE GEOGRAPHY OF FRONTIERS AND BOUNDARIES. New York: Hillary House Publishers, Ltd., 1965. 190 pages. $3.00.

Virginia M. Rowley. J. RUSSELL SMITH, GEOGRAPHER, EDUCATOR, CONSERVATIONIST. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1964. 247 pages. $6.00.     

Books,Atlases, & Maps Received

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R. Warwidk Armstrong, Editor and Project Director. ATLAS OF HAWAII. The University Press of Hawaii, Department of Geography, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1973. 222 pages. Paper cover, $15.00.

Bernadine Bailey. GREENLAND IN PICTURES. Visual Geography Series, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1973. 64 pages. Paperback, $1.25.

Yi-Fu Tuan. TOPOPHILIA: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes and Values. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632, 260 pages. Cloth cover, $8.95, paper cover, $4.95.

Merrill M. Stuart. MASTER'S THESES IN GEOGRAPHY: AMERICAN AND CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES. Geographic and Area Study Publications, Tualatin, Oregon, 1973. 275 pages, Library bound $11.00, Paper back $7.00.

R. J. Johnston. SPATIAL STRUCTURES: Introducing the study of spatial systems in human geography. St. Martin's Press, New York, 7973. The Field of Geography. 137 pages. Cloth cover, $6.95.

Charles ReVelle, Penelope ReVelle. SOURCEBOOK ON THE ENVIRONMENT: The Scientific Perspective. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Mass. 02107, 1974. 332 pages. Paper back, N.P.

Raymond E. Crist, Charles M. Nissly. EAST FROM THE ANDES: Pioneer Settlements in the South American Heartland. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, Florida, 1974. 166 pages, Paper cover, $4.00.

Edited with an introduction by Louis H. Masotti and Jeffrey K. Hadden. SUBURBIA IN TRANSITION. New Viewpoints -A Division of Franklin Watts, Inc., New York, 1974. 345 pages. Paper back, $4.95.

Gordon Oosterman. THE PEOPLE: Three Indian Tribes of the Southwest. The National Union of Christian Schools, William 6. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1973. 117 pages. Paper, $2.45.

Spencer D. Parker. GHANA. Bellhaven House, Scarborough 707, Ontario, Canada, 1973. 96 pages. Paper, $3.95.

Chryssee MacCasler Perry Martin and Esmond Bradley Martin. QUEST FOR THE PAST: An Historical Guide to The Lamu Archipelago. Marketing and Publishing Ltd., 1973. 32 pages. Paper, N. P.     

Media Review

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Gerald Manners. THE CHANGING WORLD MARKET FOR IRON ORE, 1950-1980 An ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY. Baltimore, Md.: Published for the Resources for the Future, Inc., by the Johns Hopkins Press, 1971. 384 pages. Cloth, $1 4.00.

William H. Eddy, Jr., Gonzalo S. Leon, and Robert C. Milne. CONSIDER THE PROCESS OF LIVING. Washington, D.C.: The Conservation Foundation, 1972. 130 pp. Paper, $5.95.

Maurice E. McGaugh. A GEOGRAPHY OF POPULATION AND SETTLEMENT. Dubuque, Iowa: William C. Brown Company Publishers, 1970. 131 pages. Paper, $1.95.     

Books,Atlases, & Maps Received

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Alan R. H. Baker, John D. Hamshere, John Langton (eds.). GEOGRAPHICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF HISTORICAL SOURCES. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1970. Preface, index, maps. 452 pages. Cloth, $13.00.

Amry Vandenbosch. SOUTH AFRICA AND THE WORLD. Lexington: The University Kentucky Press, 1970. Preface, table of contents, index. 301 pages. Cloth, $8.50.

World Book Science Annual. SCIENCE YEAR 1971 Chicago: Field Enterprises Educational Corporation, 1970. Preface, table of contents, index, diagrams, photographs (many in color). 442 pages. Cloth, n.p.

Wilbur Zelinsky, Leszek A. Kosinski, R. Man-sell Prothero (eds.). GEOGRAPHY AND A CROWDING WORLD. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. Preface, introduction, epilogue, glossary, index, tables and maps, bibliographies. 601 pages. Cloth, $10.95.     

Books in Brief

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R. H. Osborne. EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE: AN INTRODUCTORY GEOGRAPHY. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967 (originally published as EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE: A GEOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION TO SEVEN SOCIALIST STATES. London: Chatto and Windus, 1966). 384 pages, maps and statistical tables in appendix. $7.50.

Herbert Riehl. INTRODUCTION TO THE ATMOSPHERE. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965. 365 pages. $8.95.     

Convention Candids

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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY TODAY: A PORTRAIT OF A PLANET. By Robert J. Kolenkow et al. Del Mar, California: CRM Books, 1974. Pp. ix + 517, $13.95.

INQUIRY EXPERIENCES IN GEOGRAPHY (Annotated Teacher's Edition). By Lawrence W. Latour. Lexington, Mass.: Ginn and Company, 1973. Pp. 156.     

Shifting Agriculture in Ceylon

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LANDSCAPE STUDIES. New York: Longmans Green &; Co., Inc., 1969. 201 maps, colored illustrations, photos and graphs. 184 pages. $2.95.

George Kish. ITALY. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, Inc. 1969. 125 pages, maps, tables, study guide, suggested readings, index. $1.95.     

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John H. Wise. GEOGRAPHY AND THE TEACHER. Brisbane: Jacaranda Press, 1966. 245 pages. Price not given.

John P. Cole. Latin America, An Economic And Social Geography. Washington, D.C. (since 1967, Toronto, Ont., Can.): Butterworth and Company, 1965. xviii + 468 pages, maps, tables, sketches, index. $10.95.

J. E. Spencer. Shifting Cultivation In Southeastern Asia. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1966. University of California Publications in Geography, Vol. 19. 247 pages, preface, table of contents, appendixes, plates, bibliography and index. $6.00.

John H. Thompson, ed. Geography Of New York State. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1966. 543 pages. $11.95.     

Quinoa,A Potentially Important Food Crop of the Andes

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Sidney Licht (ed.). Medical Climatology. Elizabeth Licht Publishers, New Haven, Conn., 1964. xix and 753 pages, with tables, maps, diagrams and index. $16.00.

Allen K. Philbrick. This Human World. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1963. xii and 500 pages, illustrated, maps, tables, appendix, index. $7.95.

Winston W. Crouch and Beatrice Dinerman. Southern California Metropolis: A Study in Development of Government for a Metropolitan Area. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1963. $7.50.

Samuel N. Dicken and Forrest R. Pitts. Introduction to Human Geography. Blaisdell Publishing Co., New York, 1963. 468 pages. $9.75.

Allan G. Bogue. From Prairie to Corn Belt. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1963. 310 pages with table of contents, maps, diagrams, bibliography, and index. $6.95.

Eric P. Kelly and Dragos D. Kostick. The Land and People of Poland. Portraits of the Nations Series. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, New York, 1964. 128 pp., map and many illustrations. $2.93.     

The Areal Distribution of Manufacturing in India

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Vincent H. Malmstrom. NORDEN: CROSSROADS OF DESTINY AND PROGRESS.: Searchlight Book No. 25. Princeton, N.J.: Van Nostrand, 1965. 129 pages. Paper. $1.45.

SOVIET ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.: New York: Elsevier Publishing Co., 1965. xii + 377 pages, photographs, maps, graphs. $15.00.

G. Etzel Pearcy. THE WEST INDIAN SCENE.: Searchlight Book No. 26. Princeton, N.J.: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1965. 136 pages with table of contents, appendix, bibliography, and index of places. Paper, $1.45.     

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A. M. O'Connor. An Economic Geography Of East Africa. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1966. ix % 292 pages, maps, tables, and index. $8.00.

Robert C. West and John P. Augelli. Middle America: Its Lands and Peoples. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966. 482 pages, 277 illustrations, index. $11.95.

Lowdon Wingo, Jr., ed. CITIES AND SPACE, THE FUTURE USE OF URBAN LAND. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1966. 261 pages. Paperback, $2.45.     

Editorial Notes and News

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Thubten Jigme Norbu. Tibet Is My Country. As told to Heinrich Harrer; translated from the German by Edward Fitzgerald. E. P. Dutton &; Co., 300 Park Avenue South, New York 10, N.Y., 1961. 264 pages with color illustrations. $5.00.

Miriam Schlein. The Sun, The Wind, The Sea and The Rain. Abelard-Schuman Limited, 6 West 57 Street, New York 19, N.Y., 1960. 38 pages with illustrations by Joe Lasker. $2.75.

Robert L. Pendleton with the assistance of Robert C. Kingsbury and others. Thailand: Aspects of Landscape and Life. An American Geographical Society Handbook. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 60 East 42nd Street, New York 17, N.Y., 1962. xv and 321 pages with table of contents, photographs, maps, charts and index. $10.00.

Stuart R. Tomkins. Life in America: Alaska. Revised edition. The Fideler Company, Grand Rapids 2, Michigan, 1961. 128 pages with table of contents, photographs, glossary and index. $2.48.

Harry C. Rubicam, Jr. Men at Work in the Great Plains States. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 200 Madison Avenue, New York 16, N.Y., 1961. 123 pages with table of contents, photographs, notes and index. $3.00.

Winifred Hammond. Rice: Food for a Hungry World. Coward-McCann, Inc., 210 Madison Ave., New York 16, N.Y., 1961. 160 pages with table of contents, references, maps, photographic illustrations and index. $3.50.

John C. and Elsie F. Caldwell. Our Neighbors in the Philippines. The John Day Company, Inc., 200 Madison Avenue, New York 16, N.Y., 1961. 45 pages with table of contents, photographs and illustrations by Heidi Ogawa. 12.00.

Sidney H. Gould, editor. Sciences in Communist China. (Pub. No. 68) American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C., 1961. 872 pages with table of contents, tables and author, geographical and subject indexes. $14.00.

Gilbert F. White, editor. Papers on Flood Problems. Research Paper No. 70. Department of Geography, Rosenwald Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago 37, Illinois, 1961. 228 pages with illustrations. $4.00.

D. D. Harris and D. A. M. Lea. A Regional Geography of South Australia. Whitcombe and Tombs Pty., Ltd., 20 Bond Street, Melbourne, C. 1, Australia, 1961. 168 pages with table of contents, maps, diagrams and index. About $2.75.

Richard M. Highsmith, Jr., editor, and Jon M. Leverenz, cartographer. Altas of the Pacific Northwest: Resources and Development, 3rd edition. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, Oregon, 1962. 168 pages with table of contents, photographs, tables, plates and index. $5.00.

Wiliam Lytle Schurz. Brazil, The Infinite Country. E. P. Dutton &; Co., 300 Park Avenue South, New York 10, N.Y., 1961. 316 pages with table of contents, maps, supplementary reading list and index. $6.00.

Umberto Nobile. My Polar Flights. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 200 Madison Avenue, New York 16, N.Y., 1961. 288 pages with table of contents, illustrations, appendix and index. $4.50.

Robert Engler. The Politics of Oil: A Study of Private Power and Democratic Directions. The Macmillan Company, 60 Fifth Avenue, New York 11, N.Y., 1961. viii and 565 pages with table of contents, notes and index. $7.50.

Edwin Thompson Denig. Five Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri: Sioux, Arickaras, Assiniboines, Crees, Crows. (Edited and with introduction by John C. Ewers.) University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, 1961. 217 pages with 12 illustrations, 1 map, editor's bibliography and index. $4.00.

J. P. Cole and F. C. German. A Geography of the USSR: The Background to a Planned Economy. Butterworth Inc., 7235 Wisconsin Avenue, Washington 14, D.C., 1961. x and 290 pages with table of contents, appendixes, notes, glossary, bibliography and index. $8.50.

Jane and Paul Annixter. Horns of Plenty. Holiday House, 8 West 13th St., New York 11, N.Y., 1960. 203 pages. $2.95.

Richard J. Ward and Lawrence A. Hoffman, editors. Readings in Economic Geography from Fortune. Henry Holt and Company, 383 Madison Avenue, New York 17, N.Y., 1960. 130 pages with table of contents, maps and graphs. $1.50

Helen Wolff Vogel and Mary Leonard Caruso. Ocean Harvest: The Future of Oceanography. Alfred A. Knopf, 501 Madison Avenue, New York 22, N.Y., 1961. 14 pages with illustrations by John Kaufman. $3.00.

The New Rand McNally Pocket World Atlas. Cardinal Edition. Pocket Books, Inc., 630 Fifth Avenue, New York 20, N.Y., 1961. 295 pages with table of contents, maps covering 169 pages and index. 75 cents.

Lowdon Wingo, Jr., Transportation and Urban Land. Resources for the Future, Inc., 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington 6, D.C., 1961. 132 pages with table of contents, figures and appendices. $2.00.

Paul Fenimore Cooper. Island of the Lost. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 200 Madison Avenue, New York 16, N.Y., 1961. 256 pages with table of contents, map of King William Island and selected bibliography. $4.00.

Rhoads Murphey. An Introduction to Geography. Rand McNally and Company, P.O. Box 7600, Chicago 80, Illinois, 1961. 699 pages with table of contents, illustrations, chapter-end bibliographies, questions for further study, statistical appendix and index. $7.75.

Jordan A. Hodgkins. Soviet Power: Energy Resources, Production and Potentials. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1961. 190 pages with table of contents, maps, tables and 34 pages of appendix tables. $5.25.

Andrew A. Freeman. The Case for Doctor Cook. Coward-McCann, Inc., 210 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y., 1961. 315 pages with table of contents, sources, notes and acknowledgments and index. $5.75.

Frances H. Kohan and Truda T. Weil. Juan's Adventures in Mexico. Noble and Noble, Publishers, Inc., 67 Irving Place, New York 3, N.Y., 1961. 183 pages with table of contents, chapter study helps, illustrations and suggested reading list. $3.00.     

Books in Brief

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Pierre Gourou. THE TROPICAL WORLD: ITS SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS AND ITS FUTURE STATUS. Translated by S. H. Beaver and E. D. Laborde. 4th edition. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1966. xii + 196 pages, 16 maps, 39 photographs, index. $5.00.

Harold D. Drummond and Ruth H. Stanley. JOURNEYS THROUGH THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. Our World Today Series. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1966. 382 pages, Cloth, $5.24. Workbook, 144 pages, paperbound, $1.32.

Walter G. Neale. INDIA: THE SEARCH FOR UNITY, DEMOCRACY, AND PROGRESS. Searchlight Book No. 24, edited by George W. Hoffman and G. Etzel Pearcy. Princeton: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1965. 128 pp., maps, tables. $1.45.

ODYSSEY WORLD ATLAS. New York: Golden Press, Inc., 850 Third Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022. 1966. 317 pages. $19.95.