By Alastair Bonnett
- Alisdair Rogers, college of Oxford
"A appealing little ebook that is helping to introduce the center suggestions of geography and offers an awesome framework for concerning different fields of information and academia."
- Stefan Zimmermann, collage of Osnabruck
What is Geography? Geography is a primary fascination with, and a very important approach for, realizing the best way the area works.
This textual content deals readers a brief and hugely available account of the information and ideas constituting geography. Drawing out the main issues that outline the topic, what's Geography? demonstrates how and why those topics - like surroundings and geopolitics- are of basic significance.
Including dialogue of either the human and the common geographical regions, the textual content appears to be like at key topics like atmosphere, area, and position - in addition to geography's tools and the historical past of the discipline.
Introductory yet now not simplified, what's Geography? will offer scholars being able to comprehend the heritage and context of the topic with none previous wisdom. Designed as a key transitional textual content for college students coming into undergraduate classes, this ebook should be of curiosity to all readers drawn to and intrigued via the "geographical imagination".
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