Subject: Book references<br/>
Date: Oct 03, 2000 @ 02:01<br/>
Author: Brendan Whyte (&quot;Brendan Whyte&quot; &lt;brwhyte@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1641797244"><blockquote><span title="ireply">&gt;  Gideon Biger&#39;s &quot;Encyclopedia of International<br/>
&gt; &gt;Bonudaries&quot; (1995, Facts on File, NY)<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;gideons bible will set us back 125 simoleons at amazon<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;but can you tell me<br/>
&gt;is he on top of the maritime tri country points<br/>
&gt;& is there perhaps a list of them you could transmit<br/>
&gt;or any other bare essentials in this area<br/>
&gt;<br/>
 </span></blockquote>No, nothing maritime, just terrestrial.<br/>
It lists, alphabetically, every land boundary with a description of where it <br/>
goes. It is not, however, a catalogue ofthe legal descriptions, like <br/>
Brownlie&#39;s @African boundaries&#39; is. For Asia see J.r.v. Prescott&#39;s<br/>
@Map of Mainland Asia by Treaty&#39;, Melbourne Uni Press, 1975<br/>
or Prescott, Collier and Prescott, &#39;Frontiers of asia and Southeast Asia&#39;, <br/>
Melbourne Uni Press, 1977.<br/>
The former is over 500 pages of treaties and legal documents coupled with <br/>
Prescott&#39;s own historical summary of the boundary formation process for <br/>
every nation-wise boundary from Afghanistan-Iran eastwards. Includes sikkim, <br/>
but no boundaries in island SE Asia.<br/>
The latter book is a paperback, 100pp, without the legal documents, but with <br/>
a nice full page 2 colour map of each boundary and a description of the <br/>
historical formation of the border. Further references are given. Again the <br/>
middle east is left out, but insular SE Asian boundaries are included, ie <br/>
Brunei, Malaysia/Indonesia on borneo, Indon/PNG on New Guinea and East <br/>
Timor/Indon (it was only just Indon-invaded back then), and the torres <br/>
strait boundary between PNG and Australia.<br/>
It also includes maritime boundaries as known then. But they are still in <br/>
the process of formation.<br/>
<br/>
If you can&#39;t find secondhand copies on the 2 book websites i gave yesterday <br/>
(and there should be several copies on them), then write directly to <br/>
Professor Victor Prescott, who has a few new copies still for sale:<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:j.prescott@...">j.prescott@...</a><br/>
<br/>
Brendan<br/>
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