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Record #201846:

Hints to travellers. Volume two: organization and equipment, scientific observation, health, sickness and injury / Arthur Robert Hinks, ed.

Title: Hints to travellers. Volume two: organization and equipment, scientific observation, health, sickness and injury / Arthur Robert Hinks, ed.
Author(s): Hinks, Arthur Robert,
Date: 1938.
Publisher: London: Royal Geographical Society
Abstract: Practical handbook for those planning expeditions, including much of relevance to polar regions. Topics covered include: preparation at home; accommodation; camp furniture; food and drink; clothing; baggage; preparation on arrival; transport; march and camp routine; communications; return home; photography; meteorology; vegetation; geology; natural history; anthropology; antiquities; health and disease; and injury.
Notes:

Edited by the secretary with the help of many travellers.

Keywords: 910.2 -- Exploration, kinds and techniques.
658.314 -- Expeditions, rules and regulations.
910.2(211) -- Cold regions, life and travel.
39 -- Ethnography.
551.1/.4 -- Geology.
551.5 -- Meteorology.
58 -- Botany.
59 -- Zoology.
615.472.1 -- Medical equipment for expeditions.
77 -- Photography and cinematography.
903 -- Archaeology.
W -- Expeditions and exploration.
(*2) -- Polar regions.
Location(s): SCO: SPRI-SHF: 910.2(211)
SPRI record no.: 201846

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561 1# ‡aCopy A presented to SPRI by the editor, 1942.‡5UkCU-P
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650 07 ‡a39 -- Ethnography.‡2udc
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650 07 ‡a551.5 -- Meteorology.‡2udc
650 07 ‡a58 -- Botany.‡2udc
650 07 ‡a59 -- Zoology.‡2udc
650 07 ‡a615.472.1 -- Medical equipment for expeditions.‡2udc
650 07 ‡a77 -- Photography and cinematography.‡2udc
650 07 ‡a903 -- Archaeology.‡2udc
650 07 ‡aW -- Expeditions and exploration.‡2local
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