All Possible Worlds: A History of Geographical Ideas
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Updated and revised to include theoretical and other developments, bibliographical additions, new photographs and illustrations, and expanded name and subject indexes, the fourth edition of All... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0471061212
ISBN13:9780471061212
Release Date:January 1981
Publisher:John Wiley & Sons
Length:508 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
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The book every geographer should have.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
"All Possible Worlds" is an excellent source for the history of geography. The authors cover geography as done by the ancient Greeks, Phoenicians, Muslims, Chinese, Medieval scholars. Portuguese, and all the explorers during the Age of Exploration. They excellent cover how hard it was to discard the wrong ideas of the Greeks. After discussing Humboldt, they then go into the development of geography from 1850 to the present day, which to them was originally in the 1970's, although it has been updated up to 1993. in each of the major countries on the Earth.A definite book for any true geographer to have.
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