000			01016nam a22001217a 4500
020			_a978-8183763127
082			_a910.3 _bENC.E.1
100			_avijay purthy,chandra
245			_a Encyclopaedia Of World Geography
260			_bABD Publishers _c 2012
500			_aBook 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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