Hi All,
Further to the comment on Ross Clark's article (in the *Sunday* Telegraph,
11/1/97), this letter in reply (ST, 19/1/97) has given my parents much amusement
(they are my source, sorry):
"*It's Still About Maps*
"Ross Clark's description of the lectures given at the annual meeting of the
Royal Geographical Society ... was a fair one, but the conclusions drawn were
incorrect ... The lectures given at the IBG conference always tend to be rather
Left-wing and are often trivial. Fortunately, they are not representative of the
excellent work done by the RGS, by school geography departments, and indeed by
most university geographers.
"For more than 160 years the Royal Geographical Society has been dedicated to
the study of *places*. Every year three or more major expediations are run by
the RGS, including in past months to Nepal, Jordan and Brunei. There is no
organisation in the world which runs scientific expeditions of the size and
quality of these.
"The content of the IBG annual meeting is a long way from the geography taught
in schools. Like most conferences run for the benefit of younger university
academics, it should not be taken too seriously".
The author is Barnaby Lenon, Headmaster, Trinity School, Croydon. And, given
recent exchanges in this forum, I think it is best that I don't use words such
as "we" or "us", so I leave you to draw your own conclusions...
Good luck with your letters to the editor...
Steve
PS Nepal, Jordan and Brunei?!?!
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