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THE authors intend this volume to be used after a course on commercial and industrial geography. It deals with the principles of geography, the effect of specific geographical factors, types of human communities, and the trade and commerce of the continents, with more detailed consideration of the United States. The book is a welcome addition to the volumes already available on the geography of production and commerce, and in its width of outlook and wealth of ideas should prove very stimulating, and occasionally provocative, to all readers. In one essential respect it differs from most books on the subject: the human factor in business relations receives ample consideration. The world is treated not merely as so many places, each producing so many products: the varying physical and mental qualities of races are recognised and given their due weight in the explanation of the development of the world. Stress is also laid on the relation of man to different climates in respect of wealth and efficiency. The book is admirably illustrated, and there are a number of ingenious exercises attached to each chapter. It is a book that should find wide acceptance in spite of its unattractive title.
Business Geography.
By Ellsworth Huntington Prof. F. E. Williams. With the co-operation of Prof. R. M. Brown and Lenox E. Chase. Pp. x + 482. (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1922.) 13s. 6d. net.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 111, 531 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111531a0
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