Augustów and its Region [antikvár]

AUTHORS' NOTE The object of this publication is to introduce the tourist to the beauty of Augustów and its Laké District. There have been, in fact, somé guides previously published about the region but they are either out of print by now, or, if they are still available, contain nothing more than the description of the different waterways. In the recent years a Society of the Lovers of the Region has been established, and it is largely due to their endeavour that the Ministry of Art and Culture has officially pronounced the Augustów Canal to be a first-grade national relic of the past. Jerzy Gorewicz and Bronislaw Orlowski published a valuable book on The Augustów Canal, Its Past and Future" (in Polish), with a lot of interesting matériái about the principal watercourse of the region. Earlier still, the Bialystok Scientific Society published a book of more scholarly character, Studies and Material to the History of the Augustów Laké DistrictIn December 1970 a Cabinet Act was issued granting Augustów the status of a health resort. Since then, the town and its neighbourhood underwent many improvements and developments, among them a favourable change in the localisation of the Augustów Branch of the Warsaw Shipping Co".