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The 23 Issues of Explorations Available Online

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The original Explorations consisted of Issues #1 through #8 and were jointly edited by Edmund Carpenter and Marshall McLuhan and published between 1953 and 1957 at the University of Toronto.

Issue #9 entitled Eskimo was edited by Edmund Carpenter and consisted of text by him and images by Robert Flaherty and Frederick Varley.

Issues #1 to #8 and #9 were stand-alone issues but issues #10 to #32 were inserts in two University of Toronto alumni magazines:

Issues #10 through #19 were inserts in the Varsity Graduate published from May 1964 to the Summer of 1967.

Issues #20 through #32 were inserts in the University of Toronto Graduate published from Xmas of 1967 to the Spring of 1972. 

Explorations in Communication, an Anthology, edited by Edmund Carpenter and Marshall McLuhan is a collection of articles from the first eight issues of the journal Explorations that was published in 1960 in Boston by Beacon Press. The book is now out of print but used copies are available at amazon.com and www.abebooks.com.

The following 23 issues of Explorations (#10 through #32) are available online. For issues #10 through #19 clicking on the links for Varsity Graduate 11, 12 & 13 will take you to the entire Varsity Graduate magazine and so you must find the pages indicated for each issue where the Explorations insert starts. The page numbers in the Varsity Graduate magazine are given for each issue. Varsity Graduate 11 contains 4 issues of exploration, Varsity Graduate 12, 3 issues and Varsity Graduate 13, 3 issues. 

https://archive.org/details/varsitygraduate11univ

Contains: Summer 1964 (#10); Xmas 1964 (#11); Spring 1965 (#12); Summer 1965 (#13)

• Issue #10 of Explorations begins on p. 154/708 of this file which is p. 49 of the Summer 1964 issue of the Varsity Graduate.

• Issue #11 of Explorations begins on p. 181/264 of this file which is p. 49 of the Xmas 1964 issue of the Varsity Graduate.

• Issue #12 of Explorations begins on p. 49/264 of this file which is p. 49 of the Spring 1965 issue of the Varsity Graduate.

• Issue #13 of Explorations begins on p. 623/708 of this file which is p. 49 of the Summer 1965 issue of the Varsity Graduate.

https://archive.org/details/varsitygraduate12univ

Contains: Xmas 1965 (#14); Spring 1966 (#15); Summer 1966 (#16)

• Issue #14 of Explorations begins on p. 57/452 of this file which is p. 49 of the Xmas 1965 issue of the Varsity Graduate.

• Issue #15 of Explorations begins on p. 233/452 of this file which is p. 49 of the Spring 1966 issue of the Varsity Graduate.

• Issue #16 of Explorations begins on p. 49/176 of this file which is p. 49 of the Summer 1966 issue of the Varsity Graduate.

https://archive.org/details/varsitygraduate13univ

Contains: Xmas 1966 (#17); Spring 1967 (#18); Summer 1967 (#19)

• Issue #17 of Explorations begins on p. 45/480 of this file which is p. 37 of the Xmas1966 issue of the Varsity Graduate.

• Issue #18 of Explorations begins on p. 261/480 of this file which is p. 49 of the Spring 1967 issue of the Varsity Graduate.

• Issue #19 of Explorations begins on p. 65/136 of this file which is p. 65 of the Summer 1967 issue of the Varsity Graduate.

https://archive.org/details/explorationschristmas1967/mode/2up

Contains: Xmas 67 (Issue #20) 

https://archive.org/details/explorationsspring1968/mode/2up

Contains: Spring 68 (Issue #21)

https://archive.org/details/explorationssummer1968/mode/2up

Contains: Summer 68 (Issue #22)

https://archive.org/details/explorationschristmas1968/mode/2up

Contains: November 68 (Issue #23)

https://archive.org/details/graduate2no2uoft/

Contains: Spring 1969 (Issue #24)

• Issue #24 of Explorations begins on p. 81/121 of this file which is p. 81 of the Spring 1969 issue of the University of Toronto Graduate.

https://archive.org/details/explorationssummer1969/mode/2up

Contains: Summer 69 (Issue #25)

https://archive.org/details/explorationschristmas1969/mode/2up

Contains: Xmas 69/Winter 70 (Issue #26)

https://archive.org/details/graduate3no2uoft

Contains: Spring 1970 (Issue #27)

• Issue #27 of Explorations begins on p. 65/97 of this file which is p. 65 of the Spring 1970 issue of the University of Toronto Graduate.

https://archive.org/details/explorationssummer1970/mode/2up

Contains: Summer 70 (Issue #28)

https://archive.org/details/graduate3no4uoft/page/88

Contains: Winter 1970-71 (Issue #29)

• Issue #29 of Explorations begins on p. 89/137 of this file which is p. 89 of the Winter 1970-71 issue of the University of Toronto Graduate.

https://archive.org/details/explorationsspring1971/mode/2up

Contains: Spring 71 (Issue #30)

https://archive.org/details/graduate4no1uoft

Contains: Jan 1972 (Issue #31)

• Issue #31 of Explorations begins on p. 45/73 of this file which is p. 45 of the January 1972 issue of the University of Toronto Graduate.

https://archive.org/details/graduate4no2uoft

Contains: May 1972 (Issue #32)

• Issue #32 of Explorations begins on p. 41/65 of this file which is p. 41 of the May 1972 issue of the University of Toronto Graduate.

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