Monsoon Asia is the southern and eastern part of Asia, including India, Pakistan and Ceylon; China and Japan; and all the peninsulas and islands of the south-east as far as New Guinea and the Philippines. But it is more than an area of land or an assemblage of countries. It is a geographical region. To be acceptable as a geographical region an area must satisfy the following conditions:rnrnI-ho…
The Pennine Way, the longest footpath in Britain, runs from the Peak District to Kirk Yetholm, across the Scottish Border. As the first Long Distance Footpath to be completed it is already well established in the public eye. In 1965, a survey on four days in the summer holiday period showed that half of those passing some 15 checkpoints were on walks lasting more than ten days, and that nearly …
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THE FIFTH edition of this book differs to a con siderable extent from the previous one. Only in Chapters 6, 13, 14, 17. and 30 have the changes been minor All other chapters needed to be brought up to date and considerable re writing and reorganization proved to be de- sirable The present Chapter 1 was considered to be a better introduction to the subject matter of the book Chapter 19 was writt…
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…
This book, like its predecessor, is intended primarily for the use of undergraduates and graduates in urban geography courses, althrought it will so be of interest to students of urban planing, urban economics, and urban sociology.
Geography is the science of the earth's surface. It consists of a systematic description and interpretation of the distribution patterns and the regional associations of things on the face of the earth.
Descriptive writings of land people are found in the oral traditions of classical Greece and are reflected in the works of Homer
The idea carrying out a survey of research done so far in the field of social scienses was firts put forward by the late Dr. D. R. Gadgil, the firts Chairman of thr council. In the very firts meeting of the ICSSR, he emphasized the need to formulate priotities and significant in promoting social science research in the country and argued that this task would be greatly facilitated if a survey …
THE journey of which an account is given in the following pages was not undertaken in the special interests of geographical or other science nor in the service of any Government. My chief object was to gratify a long-felt desire to visit those portions of the Chinese Empire which are least known to Europeans, and to acquire some knowledge of the various tribes subject to China that inhabit the …