Students Companion to Geography

By Alisdair Rogers and Heather Viles

Book Overview

This comprehensive and up-to-date guide is in six parts, and contains contributions from fifty leading geographers from Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the USA. The first part of the book includes a number of expert views of the subject, explaining why geography is worth studying today. Part II provides a review of a number of key areas in human and physical geography which outlines contemporary debates and future research issues. Part III is a guide to the methods and techniques of geography. It includes helpful information on how to conduct undergraduate research, covering such topics as remote sensing, laboratory and archive work, questionnaire surveys and interviewing. Part IV includes a bibliographical directory of leading geographers, a guide to reading geography and a summary of the major themes and debates which cut across the field. There is also a directory of geographical information and data sources, including libraries, sensors and on-line systems; the authors offer advice on career s and how to apply for postgraduate research in different countries. It is the essential guide and companion for all students or prospective students of geography.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631170898
• ISBN13: 9780631170891
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

A British perspective on WASP Geography for the undergrad

The Brits seem to approach Geography in higher education with more love and attention than their American academic counterparts, and this text illustrates that healthy state of British physical and cultural geographic theory and practice up to 2002. The top-notch authors chosen for each of the chapters help to explain why the Geography major in the UK is fairly popular. The chapters on cultural geography are from an unabashedly leftist perspective(the way I like it), so you won't find, for example, an introduction to military geography in this book! Good references are provided for most chapters for students to explore specialties. The mechanics of how to get through a Geography degree will be helpful to the floundering undergrad.