4 AUGUST 1950, page 20

Russia Goes East

"THE Heartland of the World "—that is what the British geographer Mackinder called the vast source of land-power and man-power stretching from the Baltic to Mongolia, where......

Manchester Nostalgia

Manchester Made Them. By Katharine Chorley. (Faber. 125. 6d.) MANY a Manchester man, as he reads this fragrant, wise and civilised book, will hardly know where he is and what is......

British Uplands

Mountains and Moorlands. By W. H. Pearsall. (Collins' New Naturalist '' series. 2 Is.) THE uplands of Britain, which form about a third of the land, are the areas least touched......