Companion Encyclopedia of Geography
Subtitle: The Environment and Humankind (Routledge Companion Encyclopedias)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 29, 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1021
ISBN-13: 9780415074179
First sentence: The distinctiveness of the geographical discipline has always lain in the extent to which it accommodates a concern for the physical as well as for the human environment and in its early vision of an integrated and holistic world: a habitat; a place of organic life.