General Regional Geography

Contents: Preface. 1. Mathematical geography. 2. The lithosphere. 3. The changing face of nature. 4. The atmosphere. 5. The Oceans. 6. Weather and climate. 7. General survey of Asia. 8. The Mansoon Lands. 9. The Asiatic Mediterranean Lands. 10. South-West Asia. 11. Chinese Central Asia. 12. The U.S.S.R.--Siberia. 13. Climate change and global environment. 14. Environment and population. 15. Ecology of climate change. 16. Climate, energy and industrial technology. 17. Climate change and global environment.

"This book is describes how man is conditioned by his environment and how he, in his turn, responds to this environment. Thus the emphasis is on the human side of geography and the main object is to show the nature of the world as the physical home of man. Its diverse environments and peoples, which should enable man and women to see social and political problems in a truer perspective, and give them sympathetic understanding of other peoples?" (jacket)