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Seeing the world
This month, I talked to Alastair Bonnett about his latest book, 40 Maps That Will Change How You See The World (see Page 44 to read the interview and to see some of the fabulous and, indeed, life-changing maps). As you are a reader of Geographical, it’s fair to assume that you’re as fascinated and delighted by a map - nearly any map as I am. And Alastair’s 40 won’t disappoint. They will intrigue you, make you think, force you to re-evaluate old assumptions and introduce you to new ideas. This is a book that should go straight onto your Christmas list.
Alastair makes the point that maps are functional, and one of their most obvious uses is to assist with travel. Continuing that theme, this month, Mark Rowe takes a long look at one of the world’s biggest industries and asks, what does the future hold for tourism? It would seem that some longheld assumptions on that front are up for re-evaluation (see Page 26). How we think about travel and what the local people think about us when we get to our destination are both undergoing rapid change. The solutions to the growing conflicts that the experts have come up with suggest that how we see, and travel the world will continue to change.
Graeme Gourlay, Editor
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Arianna Poletti is a Tunisia-based Italian freelance journalist who specialises in environmental, social and postcolonial issues in the Mediterranean region. On Page 36, she reports on the devastating impact of the phosphate-mining industry in southern Tunisia. She previously worked in France for Jeune
Afrique magazine and is a member of the freelance journalist collective FADA.
Clément Girardot is a French freelance journalist with a special interest in Central Asia and Turkey. His articles have featured in Wired, the Guardian, Le Monde and numerous other publications. For his report in this issue, he travelled to Kazakhstan (Page 50) to document the problems that are facing the Caspian Sea, the world’s largest inland body of water, where water levels have been plummeting dramatically.
BRAZIL The fifth most-populous country on Earth, and by far the largest country in South America, is the latest in Katie Burton’s country profiles.
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