Geographical

January 2009

Features:

• HOTOSTORY : L OGGING OUT Images by photographer Michael Rubenstein document the decline of the logging industry in the northwestern USA and the men working in the region’s forests
• D ISHING THE DIRT In Australia’s vast farmlands, efforts are underway to manage the soil and vegetation in order to sequester huge volumes of carbon. Could this be the key to halting climate change? asks Abigail Thomas
• T RAVELS WITH THE FATHER OF HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY Two and a half thousand years on, Herodotus’ travel writings remain essential reading for historians and geographers. Justin Marozzi explains why we should all hail ‘the man who invented history’
• A GLACIAL GATHERING Nick Haslam reports from Iceland on the annual roundup of grazing sheep and horses from the country’s uplands, a practice that dates back to Viking times
• C AN TOURISM SAVE I NDIA ’ S TIGERS ? Julian Matthews, chairman of the Travel Operators for Tigers campaign, explains how managed tourism could give India’s endangered national animal a greater chance of survival
• | Jeremy Gross, a forester for the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, amid the detritus from a clear-felled forest in the northwestern USA
• A RCHIVE : D ESERT DRIVER Images from the RGS archives illustrate the pioneering work of Ralph Alger Bagnold and the Long Range Desert Group, a British Army unit that worked behind enemy lines in the Sahara during the Second World War
• E SSENTIAL GEAR : T HE DIGITAL EXPLORER Modern technology means that it has never been easier to communicate with the world while in the fi eld, no matter how remote you may be. Jamie Buchanan-Dunlop discusses the gadgets he uses on his expeditions
• | WORLDWATCH
• CLIMATEWATCH
• IN SOCIETY
• HOTSPOT: Corfu
• FROM THE COLLECTION: Mariner’s astrolabe
• REVIEWS
• TRADE SECRETS: Cashmere
• GEOPHOTO: Winter landscapes
• I’M A GEOGRAPHER: Marina Silva
• WHERE IN THE WORLD?
• YOUNG GEOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR