Interpreting Our World: 100 Discoveries That Revolutionized Geography

100 Discoveries That Revolutionized Geography

This important book demonstrates why geography matters in the modern-day world through its examination of 100 moments throughout history that had a significant impact on the study of geography—literally, "writing about the earth."

• Provides readers with an understanding of why geography matters to our 21st-century world and an awareness of how geography affects our everyday lives and is key to wise decision making

• Addresses and explains key themes of geography, including scale, physical processes, cultural processes, patterns, relationships, models, and trends

• Integrates time, space, and place in geography, documenting how it is not only the study of spatial patterns, but also the fact that many discoveries in geography came about because of the particular time and place in which the discoverers lived