for a long time ago i have wanted to write an Inside book about the Soviet Union, and this is it. In general it follows the pettern of Inside Europe, Inside U.S.A, Inside Africa, and so on, but the canvas is more restricted still, big enough. After all the Soviet Union covers close to one-sixth of the land surface of the globe, and has put its own moons into the sky.
To attempt an introduction to a Guide to Devon and Cornwall is rather like trying to describe an apple and an orange in the same breath From an appropriate distance the two objects have a strong resemblance, the nearer you approach them the more different from each other they prove to be. No two adjoining counties in England are, I fancy, so dissımılar. It is even difficult for the casual tou…
Ance 02/10/24
Asm 25/09/24
World economic geography is taking on new sig- nificance in the modern age Premodern man's concern with situation and habitat was mainly local, but modern man's concern is more and more world- wide. The pressure of world communism for he- gemony, the pressure exerted by underdeveloped societies to develop their own political and eco- nomic overlordship, the pressure of dynamic science and techn…
Ance 20/09/24
For some time I have been interested in the changing fortunes of the adjective old-fashioned. I find it significant that this adjective has by now shed all of its pejorative associations. For example, the Oxford English Dictionary shows that a century ago old-fashioned had a wide currency in the sense of a child having the ways of a grown-up person, hence, precocious, knowing." Dickens would ha…
rst 02/07/24