Book Description
For introductory Physical Geography courses.
The only text to focus thematically on landscape appreciation, this best-seller fosters a solid understanding of Earth and its physical geography. Its clear, user-friendly writing style, superior art program, and abundant pedagogy appeal to a wide variety of students.
Features and Benefits
NEW - Updated and improved coverage of soils and global climate change, provides students with the most up-to-date information in the field.
NEW - Updated graphics - An excellent cartographic and illustration program, including hundreds of maps with shaded relief where appropriate, line illustrations with numerous multi-part illustrations that capture sequence and evolution to help students understand process, and major photos paired with locator maps to heighten basic geographic literacy, helps students view process and enables them to view Earths features from multiple perspectives to further enhance their understanding.
Retains Tom L. McKnights well-known focus on landscape appreciation, helps students gain an appreciation of geography by heightening their understanding of the world around them.
Strong emphasis on chapter pedagogy - Every chapter includes chapter summaries, review questions, and key terms lists, helps students pick out important points to more efficiently and effectively learn the material.
Study guide - Authored by experienced educator Darrel Hess of San Francisco City College - Available for students.
Book Info
A textbook teaching physical geography with a very visual format, including more than 80 maps, climographs, line and multi-part illustrations, more than 80 photographs, and more. The CD-ROM contains virtual field trips that allow the user to explore geographically significant areas using virtual reality. Previous edition: c1999.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
