A Geography of the World (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

B. C. Wallis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330477324 ISBN 13 : 9781330477328

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

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Présentation de l'éditeur

When you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it, but when you can not measure it, when you can not express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind. Lord Kelvin. AN ideal course in Geography would deal with the quantitative measurement and expression of the facts as to the geographical conditions under which man lives and works determined in relation to the world as a unit. This or that country produces or uses this or that proportion of a given commodity; it is not enough to know that Brazil produces coffee, or Australia mines gold ;we must know that Brazil produces four-fifths of the worlds coffee and Kalgoorlie mines one-tenth of the worlds gold. This book is an attempt within many limitations to realise this ideal: it represents an endeavour to obtain in the realm of geographical facts a numerical statement of our knowledge. The first limitation is due to size. It is scarcely possible to deal exhaustively with all the geographical facts of the world in a book of this compass; some selection has been necessary, and it appeared advisable to allow for greater detail in certain parts by limiting the scope to theB ritish Empire as a sample of the whole world. Superficially, it may appear that the data considered are too economic in character, that insufficient allowance has been made for the physiographic elements. This is, however, more an appearance than a reality ;the numerical statement of the facts necessarily takes up more space than the verbal expression which is possible in regard to land forms. Geography deals with the co-existence at the present time of the many forces which tend to shape human effort.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330477324
• ISBN 13: 9781330477328
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 396
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