Leçons de Géographie physique

Abstract

IF Prof, de Lapparent had been writing in America, he would have introduced the word Geomorphogeny in the title of his latest book; but in Europe, he observes in the preface, there is some risk of frightening those whom he would wish to instruct if they are confronted by an unfamiliar term at the outset. The title “Lessons in Physical Geography,” although quite without terror, is not fairly descriptive, for this fine volume is no ordinary treatise of physical geography in the usual vague sense. “Lessons on the Genesis of Geographical Forms” would, in the author's view, and in ours, be more descriptive; but the full scope of the work would, perhaps, hardly be suggested even by such a title.

Leçons de Géographie physique.

Par Albert de Lapparent. Pp. xvi. + 590. Illustrations. (Paris: Masson et Cie., 1896.)