Shaping of Our World : A Human and Cultural Geography (Hardcover)

Offers an assessment of many of the facts of cultural geography, as exhibited in the diversity of human activity, in a lively, readable manner. Describes how settlement and occupance, territorial organization, economic endeavors and communication have affected the earth's surface. Also focuses on the way in which mankind has sought to create an environment or milieu that reflects human imagination, needs, and goals. Draws on a wide array of examples, from the past as well as the present, of human experience in the shaping of the world. Written for all undergraduates majoring in geography.