Essentials of World Regional Geography

by George W. White, Michael Bradshaw, Joseph P. Dymond

This shorter version of the highly successful Contemporary World Regional Geography, 2e gives readers a fresh new approach that combines fundamental geographical elements, internal regional diversity, and contemporary issues. This approach allows serious discussion of cultural and environmental issues, as well as political and economic issues. The main innovation in this completely rewritten text is in the ordering of the material covered. While other texts cut photos, illustrations, and boxed material from their WRG books, this essentials version is a completely rewritten text by the authors of Contemporary World Regional Geography, 2e. . Each of the nine regional chapters opens with a one- or two-page map of the region, short accounts of people or events to provide a personal flavor of the region, an outline of the chapter contents, and a short section placing the region in its wider global context. Each regional chapter is consistently organized by three sections. The first section summarizes the distinctive physical and human geographies of the region; the second section explores the internal diversity of the region at subregional, selected country, and local levels. The third section focuses on a selection of contemporary issues that are important to the people of each region and frequently have implications for the rest of the world. Each regional chapter follows the same framework, allowing students to easily make comparisons from one world region to the next. . Students are encouraged to consider what it means to be part of a global community and to develop their geographical understandings of world events. The authors have created a text that is readable, with aconsistent structure within chapters, containing superior maps and illustrations, and finally to offer a concise and more affordable text..

Genres: Sociology

384 pages, Paperback

First published September 11, 2007

Reviews

[Betsy · Rating 2 out of 5]

One of the worst written textbooks I've read. There were grammatical mistakes and basic mistakes, that our instructor pointed out. It has a lot of information and is very comprehensive in the information that ir covers, just needs to better edited.

[Amanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

meh

[Brent Darling · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is what it is, an overpriced textbook. At times, it was interesting, at times it was dull and dry. I had to read it for my GEO 113W class at Delta College during the Spring 2015 semester.