The Daily Telegraph magazine - Robert Graves and Paul Hogarth cover (8 December 1972)

Good condition for age - yellowing to page edges - top staple is missing (error in printing process)

EASING MAN'S WHITE BURDEN - Throughout the depths of winter, massive avalanches of snow crash down round the Rogers Pass in the Selkirk Mountains. Most are deliberately set off, by fire from a howitzer. This is the process for keeping the Trans-Canada Highway free. We report
Two and a quarter pages

BRINGING SEED TO BARREN GROUND - Deserts are vast, hard places which are uninviting and infertile. They can also be dangerous: left to themselves they advance and lay waste annually to large areas of land on their borders. The Bedouin have adapted to life in these wildernesses. But now there are desert reclamation schemes in progress, and hitherto barren regions in Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan are producing wheat, sunflowers, melons, grapes, vegetables. Patrick Marnham reports on the possibilities of farming the desert
5 pages

SUBLIMATION AT A SPA - At the ancient Italian spa of Fiuggi, some 2,000 transcendental meditators are following courses under the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi of Beatle fame. They avoid meat and burn joss sticks. "We want to replace the old saying 'Life is a struggle' by 'Life is bliss'," says the Maharishi
3 pages

ART ON MUTUAL TERMS - Today art and poetry are evolving in ever more imaginative ways, but seldom have the more eiminent poets and artists actually worked together. Poet Robert Graves and artist Paul Hogarth live in Majorca. They have combined their different poetic and visual outlooks to produce a series of new works of art. This is the first time they have joined forces in this way. The give lithographs depict their personal views of the romance and mysticism of their adopted island. We give a preview of these unique prints, and Edward Booth-Clibborn describes how the partnership was formed
6 pages

PROFESSIONS IN PROFILE 2: THE DON - Paul Jennings shows that the traditional picture of the Oxford don as an eccentric, absent-minded, elderly gentleman could not be further from reality
One and three quarter pages

DEFENDER OF NATURE'S BLEAK RESERVES - The Falkland Islands are bleak and remote. But they harbour lively colonies of wildlife - penguins, albatross, seals - and had few conservation schemes until Ian Strange arrived. He has now devoted 13 years in a lone battle to preserve the local species. We report on his work
Three and a half pages