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Established in 1935, Geographical is an award-winning lively, colourful monthly magazine of the Royal Geographical Society (with the IBG), presenting geography in its broadest sense. It has exciting and beautifully illustrated articles on people, places, cultures, adventure, responsible travel, history, science and environmental issues.
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A lost world above the cloudsMount Roraima in the Guiana Highlands was once proclaimed ‘unscalable’, but 124 years ago, a series of expeditions culminated in the first successful ascent of the mountain. Stewart McPherson recounts a taleIn August 1835, a young German cartographer named Robert Schomburgk arrived in Georgetown, the capital of British Guiana, to begin an epic journey on behalf of the ...
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World of confusionThe Vatican Library holds a previously unstudied map from the 16th century that raises intriguing questions about European conceptions of Columbus’s voyages to the New World, writes Chet Van DuzerExploration in the Middle Ages and Renaissance was a tricky business – something that’s easy to forget and perhaps hard to grasp for a society used to the conveniences of satellite image...
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Goodbye fuel worldAir travel is responsible for 700 million tonnes of global carbon emissions every year. Now, aircraft manufacturers and airlines have come together in the search for a way to survive in a world without kerosene. Mark Rowe reportsFast forward to the year 2040. Your flight from London to Singapore has many trappings familiar from the days of fossil-fuelled aviation, such as long qu...
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Want to see a better world?Geotourism is a new movement that shows travellers how to improve the places they visit. Jay Walljasper tours Santiago, Chile, with Jonathan Tourtellot, the dedicated globetrotter who founded the movement‘Get ready,’ Jonathan Tourtellot warns a crowd of US travel writers, ‘for tourism on steroids.’ A hush falls over the hotel conference room as he explains that internati...
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Attacked for its wastefulness, the hospitality industry is starting to think and act in a more environmentally responsible way. This makes good business sense, as award-winning architect Jeremy Blake explains to Natalie HoareSitting on a plush leather sofa in the large glass- and marble-clad atrium of a posh new arts centre a few minutes walk from King’s Cross, my companion’s enthusiasm for what h...
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