SETTLEMENT AND ENCOUNTER: Geographical Studies Presented to Sir Grenfell Price

by Gale, Fay, and Graham H. Lawton, eds

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London: Oxford University Press, 1969. xviii, 251 pp. Portrait, footnotes, references, list of contributors, index. CONTENTS: Sir Grenfell Price: an appreciation [Ann Marshall]. The spread of settlement in South Australia [Michael Williams]. Climate and man in North-western Queensland [F. H. Bauer]. A changing Aboriginal population [Fay Gale]. Apartheid: background, problems and prospects [R. K. Hefford]. Problems of vegetation change in Western Viti Levu, Fiji [G. Ross Cochrane]. Jet age medical geography [Brian Maegraith]. Some non-nutritive functions of food in New Guinea [David Lea]. Australia in New Guinea: none so blind [Diana Howlett]. A macrogeography of Western imperialism: some morphologies of moving frontiers of political control [D. W. Meinig]. A bibliography of the work of Sir Grenfell Price. CONDITION: Light overall shelving wear to book, primarily to bottom edges of boards. Stamped on front free endpaper: "Gift of American Sociological Review." Text clean and free of all marks. Dustjacket worn and chipped along top edge (with large closed tear).. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 23 x 15 cm.