geography

Book Reviews

• Edwin Bernbaum: Sacred Mountains of the World*
  - religion and spirituality; glorious photographs
• Fernand Braudel: The Mediterranean*
  And the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II
• The Budawang Committee: Pigeon House and Beyond
  A Guide to the Budawang Range and Environs
• David Buisseret: Envisioning the City
  Six Studies in Urban Cartography
• Robert Cribb: Historical Atlas of Indonesia**
  - learned and lavish
• Christine Drake: National Integration in Indonesia
  - spatial analysis of the 1980 census
• W.G. Hoskins: English Landscapes*
  - decoding the historical layers in rural landscapes
• Fouad N. Ibrahim, Barbara Ibrahim: Egypt: An Economic Geography
  - a broad-ranging survey
• Christian Jost: The French-Speaking Pacific
  Population, Environment and Development Issues
• John Keay: The Great Arc
  The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Named
• Colin McEvedy: Penguin Atlas of African History
• Malcolm McKinnon: New Zealand Historical Atlas
  - novel and innovative visualisations
• Neil Roberts: The Holocene
  An Environmental History
• Malise Ruthven, Azim Nanji: Historical Atlas of Islam
  - disappointing: uneven and in places inaccurate
• Mark D. Spalding, et al.: World Atlas of Coral Reefs
  - reef geography, geology, ecology, and conservation
• Bob Sutcliffe: 100 Ways of Seeing an Unequal World
  - graphical presentations of different forms of inequality
• Norman J. W. Thrower: Maps and Civilization*
  Cartography in Culture and Society
• Adriaan Verhulst: The Rise of Cities in North-West Europe
  - the 4th to 12th centuries, from the Meuse to the Scheldt
• David Zurick, P.P. Karan: Himalaya
  Life on the Edge of the World

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