Abstract
THE tendency of school geography to embrace too much and so to fail in achievement has been avoided in this book, which is well proportioned and thoroughly geographical throughout. Mr. Martin has the courage to omit considerations of geological structure where it has no direct bearing on human activity. Physical explanations of climatic problems are generally omitted. The diagram of the planetary winds is an improvement on that produced in most text-books, but should have the polar high-pressure areas added. Asia is treated under the larger natural regions, but these are not allowed to obscure the political units which are an essential to a full understanding of world geography.
A Geography of Asia.
By Joseph Martin. (Macmillan's Practical Modern Geographies.) Pp. viii + 298. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1919.) Price 5s
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A Geography of Asia . Nature 105, 35–36 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105035b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/105035b0
