The "accident" made me find today on one of the fastest known second-hand books of Paris, the numbers of the former journal Geographia, published in the 50 and 60. This review, which I can not tell what was the publisher no longer exists. It has nothing to do with the current review Geography of the Geographical Society which I have already mentioned several recent issues and "facelift" for 18 months or with predecessors of this review.
In the issue I bought (No. 81 of June 1958), we find a fascinating article by Andre Libault (the 5th article of a series on the History of Cartography ) for on the projection and the line to the clipboard; This article is in fact the occasion of a synthetic history and teaching of Western cartography where mention is made of portolans Portuguese, school mapping Dutch maps Elizabethan Neptune françois or globes of Coronelli.
can find back issues of this magazine to purchase online on specialized sites like this one . Other
journal found by "chance": " Atlas" with the subtitle "Discovering world." This is a monthly journal published by Editions Atlas and prestigious committee of reference "(Scientific Committee): Andre de Cayeux, Yves Coppens, Roger Frisian-Roche, Louis Leprince-Ringuet, Andre Leroi-Gourhan, Jean Rostand, Haroun Tazieff, Paul-Emile Victor, etc..
I managed to get the number 1, dated January 1977:
Contents of this Number 1, an article entitled "The land of men from a plane" , text and Eugene Turri Photo by Georg Gerster sort of ode to the earth and its extraordinary shapes and colors from the sky, long before the recent publications by Yann Arthus-Bertrand.
addition to superb aerial photographs of various backgrounds and comments that accomapgnent, this article offers some "Tips for a better look" that provide the information necessary for a passenger on an airliner to choose the best location: "With a little trial, it is possible to find" bonn displaces. "That is to say that even before boarding you have to pick one from which it will be possible in the best conditions to see what interests you. It goes without saying that the first condition is to find a place near a window. Everyone can, to some extent, by observing a map and taking into account the route will follow the device, "project" his flight. "
I do not resist the urge to quote the last lines of the article:
"From up there, we do not distinguish the sign of Man, the materialization of the relationship between man and nature, not feelings and ideas, for this report, are connected and linked together. Feelings and ideas that we can not exclude that an interim basis, our "Geoscope" can not be reduced to entomology, as if the signs left by human activity were only traces of insects. Basically, air travel is a bit like a break, a dream, a respite, after which we feel better still clinging to our city, our neighborhood, in our earthly reality. "
Unless I am mistaken, I think these two magazines have disappeared. They have been replaced by magazines such as GEO , National Geographic French version Geography , "Great News" , "Wild Earth" , "Detours in France" .
to believe the studies on the distribution of national newspapers and magazines in particular, it would cross over several years an unprecedented crisis. Thus, the category of "Press Travel, Gastronomy, Tourism and Transport where you can store most of the magazines mentioned above, shows a net decline since 2002 and continuing.
(Source OJD)
The only glimmer of hope in this bleak horizon: the "Second Life" magazines, the sale after their publication ("Release Delayed") has the effect of Internet sales of back issues no longer on the newsstands as shown in the diagram from the study of 18th Observatoire de la Presse, a trend confirmed by the 19th Press Observatory (Observatoire de la Presse is the annual event of the French press that gives an overview of the press From the analysis of scattering data of over 1000 titles of OJD , Association for the control of media distribution).
What is surprising is that despite all this mess in the economy of the magazine, some new titles appear as such Traveller. A mind elsewhere " I recently discovered.
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