The Fourth Edition of the widely-used physical geography text is updated to relect current knowledge and revised for better readability. Treatment is descriptive, emphasizing the ways in which the physical environment--climate, landforms, soils, and vegetation--affects human activities. Global, physical, geographical patterns are explained as simply as possible in terms of natural processes. Includes new, high quality illustrations and photographs.

The third edition of this comprehensive encyclopedic dictionary covers the whole field of physical geography and provides an essential reference for all students and lecturers in this field.