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Article: To the Ends of the Earth: Visions of a Changing World, 175 Years of Exploration and Photography.(Book review)
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- New Zealand International Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH: Visions of a changing world: 175 years of exploration and photography
Author: Royal Geographical Society Published by: Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2005, 240pp, $69.99.
The lavish appearance of this large format book, with superb images from around the world, belies its status as an institutional history. The Royal Geographical Society was founded as the Geographical Society of London in 1830 (taking its present name in 1859) and the book commemorates its story. It also includes some account of the Institute of British Geographers, a breakaway organisation established by a more academically inclined cohort in 1933 (one of its exciting ...