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Subject:        FW: Spying for the Raj: pundits and mapping of Himalaya
Date:   Fri, 4 May 2007 14:42:39 +0100
From:   Francis Herbert <[log in to unmask]>
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[Angie: I've just sent this to 'MapHist' and to 'Lis-maps'.  Please fwd
to 'MAPS-L' if you think appropriate.
Thanks, Francis
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*From:* Francis Herbert
*Sent:* Friday, May 04, 2007 2:35 PM
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*Subject:* Spying for the Raj: pundits and mapping of Himalaya

'Spying for the Raj : the pundits and mapping of the Himalaya' is the
title of a lecture to be given by Jules Stewart at the Royal
Geographical Society (with IBG) [www.rgs.org], 1 Kensington Gore, London
SW7 2AR,  on Tuesday 26 June 2007 at 7pm.

This lecture is listed on this Society's website (click on 'What's on'
and then 'External events') and in its members 'Bulletin' for Summer
2007 (on p.12, as a 'Non-Society event').  For further details of this
GBP10.00 per ticket, fund-raising, event please contact the Shuhada
Organization [www.shuhada.org ; tel.: 44-(0)20-7727-4338].

For pre- or post-lecture reading see:-

Spying for the Raj : the pundits and the mapping of the Himalaya / Jules
Stewart. - 1st ed. - Stroud, Gloucestershire : Sutton Publishing, 2006.
- xviii,206p., [16]p. of plates : ill., maps, portr. (some col. on
dust-jacket) ; 24 cm. - Bibliogr.: p.[195]-198 ; notes (to all
chapters): p.[189]-194. - "This book tells the story of a group of
explorer-spies whose Intelligence gathering enabled the Great
Trigonometrical Survey of India to produce maps of hitherto uncharted
regions.  These documents are held in the Map Room of the Royal
Geographical Society; a treasure trove of some one million maps and
related documents dating back more than five centuries, and the largest
private collection of its kind in the world . . ." - 'Note on the Maps'
(p.[xiii]). - ISBN 0-7509-4200-2 : £17.99

Francis Herbert
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