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Abstract Abstract May Edel. The Story of People Little, Brown and Company, 34 Beacon St., Boston 6, Mass. lllustrated by Herbert Danska. 197 pages with maps, bibliography, and index. $3.00 William Bixby. The Impossible Journey of Sir Ernest Shackleton. Robert S. Piatt. Field Study in American Geography: The Development of Theory and Method Exemplified by Selections. Christine Weston. Ceylon. Benjamin Appel. The Illustrated Book about South America Including Mexico and Central America. Ralph W. Andrews. Heros of the Western Woods. T. M. Bushnell. A Story of Hoosier Soils and Rambles in Pedological Fields. Elvajean Hall. The Land and People of Argentina. J. B. Lippincott Company, East IVashington Square, Philadelphia 5, Pa., 1960. 125 pages with map of Argentina and X (entral-book pages of photographs. $2.95 H. Percy Wilkins. Clouds, Rings and Crocodiles. Little, Brown and Co., 34 Beacon St., Boston 6, Mass., 1955 (1960 first American edition). 118 pages with illustrations. $3.00. Frank Debenham. Antarctica: The Story of a Continent. The Macmillan Company, 60 Fifth Avenue, New York 11, N.Y., 1961. 264 pages including table of contents, list of illustrations and index. $5.50. Alice Fleming. The Key to New York. J. B. Lippincott Company, East TVashington Square, Philadelphia 5, Pa., 1960. 128 pages with illustrations and index. 52.75. Gilbert J. Butland. Latin America, A Regional Geography. Longmans, Green and Company Ltd., London, England, 1960. 373 pages including maps, tables, photographs and index. $5.50. John A. Wallace. Getting to Know Poland. Coward-McCann, Inc. 210 Madison Ave., New York 16, N.Y., 1960. 64 pages with 2 black and white maps, numerous illustrations, guide to Polish pronunciation, and a chronology. $2.50. Elizabeth S. Helfman. Water for the World. Longmans, Green and Co., 119 IV. 40th St., New York 18, N.Y., 1960. 213 pages with table of contents, illustrations by James MacDonald, bibliography and index. $3.75.