The Geographical Journal, September 1st, 2004
The Physical Geography of North America. Edited by ANTONY ORME
Oxford: OUP, 2002, 608 pp. [pounds sterling]79.99. ISBN 0 19 511107 9
If you want an up-to-date, authoritative, comprehensive and very readable review of the state of scientific knowledge and research concerning North American physical geography--this is it. Perhaps a little unusually, this text examines the extra-tropical landscapes of the North American plate that stretch from the Tropic of Cancer north to the Arctic Ocean rather than separating North and South America at the isthmus of Panama, on the basis that the tectonic ...
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