TY  - BOOK
AU  - vijay purthy,chandra 
TI  -  Encyclopaedia Of World Geography
SN  - 978-8183763127
U1  - 910.3 
PY  - 2012///
PB  - ABD Publishers 
N1  - Book Description Geography is the study of the Earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena. A literal translation would be ???to describe or write about the Earth???. The first person to use the word ???geography??? was Eratosthenes (276-194 B.C.). Four historical traditions in geographical research are the spatial analysis of natural and human phenomena (geography as a study of distribution), area studies (places and regions), study of man-land relationship, and research in earth sciences. Nonetheless, modern geography is an all-encompassing discipline that foremost seeks to understand the Earth and all of its human and natural complexities-not merely where objects are, but how they have changed and come to be
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