Geographical, the monthly magazine of RGS-IBG, has exciting illustrated articles on people, places, adventure, travel, and environmental issues.

Society members and Fellows can receive Geographical as part of their membership. Geographical can also be bought in newsagents or by subscription.

  Geographical Magazine: July 2009 issue

  Cover feature: Saddle up - High Adventure in the High Pamirs Spending a month in the badlands of Central Asia many not be everyone's ideal holiday, but more and more tourists are going on organised trips to remote or dangerous locations in search of adventure and travel kudos.
Minty Clinch joins a group trekking through the high Pamirs of Tajikistan.

  Toxic Technology
As people in the West buy increasing numbers of new electronic gadgets, obsolete equipment gets shipped to developing nations for recycling, with damaging consequences.

Andrew McConnell uncovers the results of the trade in e-waste in Ghana.

  Escape to the country
Wealthy urbanites who own second homes in the British countryside have long been resented by rural residents as "outsiders" who buy up village properties but don't contribute to their communities.

But a new type of exclusive development could provide a solution, writes Jonathan Margolis

  The Devil's Water
Millions of people on the Indian subcontinent are unwittingly drinking water that is contaminated with arsenic.

Adrian Page reports on what was intended to be a public health revolution but has resulted in the largest mass poisoning in history

  Spiritual Healing
The role of traditional healers, shamans and witchcraft in indigenous cultures has long fascinated curious Westerners, as these images from the Royal Geographical Society's archives show

  Have Children, Will Travel
Venturing to far-off places with young kids in tow isn't easy.

Dr Jane Howarth-Wilson explains what kit you should take to make your trip child's play

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