Regional Geography of Great Britain

Abstract

THE origin of this book is probably to be found in a conversation which the editor, Mr. A. G. Ogilvie, had with a well-known French geographer some two or three years ago. Mr. Ogilvie in his preface points out that there is a certain lack of modern authoritative geographical works dealing with Great Britain, and remarks that, although there are now twenty-one departments of geography in universities and university colleges in Great Britain, no attempt had been made, until this book was planned, to gather together the accumulated experience of the heads of these departments and the results of their studies in their own regions. He therefore made the suggestion to the British National Committee for Geography, a body which was formed on the initiative of the Royal Society, and is one of the constituent members of the Inter national Geographical Union, that a composite volume should be published, to be written in the main by the heads of departments of geography, and that this volume should contain accounts of the geography of the various regions of the country by those who had specially studied them.

Great Britain: Essays in Regional Geography.

By Twenty-six Authors. Edited by Alan G. Ogilvie. Published on the Occasion of the Twelfth International Geographical Congress at Cambridge. Pp. xxx + 486. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1928.) 21s. net.