Don't Know Much About® Geography: Revised and Updated Edition
Description
Don't Know Much About Geography by New York Times bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis is a fascinating and fun exploration of our planet.
Geography is the hub from which other disciplines radiate: meteorology, ecology, geology, oceanography, demographics, cartography, agricultural studies, economics, and political science.
In addition to presenting geographical trivia that’ll impress your friends, Davis explores 21st-century topics of global concern, including the role of the Internet and technology in transforming the lives of people around the world, how so-called developing nations develop, sustainability, and the debates over climate change and evolutionary science.
This completely revised and updated version of Don't Know Much About Geography is an entertaining and illuminating grand tour of planet Earth.
|Who killed the Dead Sea? What can you build with BRICS? Does the World Bank have ATMs? Is all the talk of global warming just a lot of hot air?
In Don't Know Much About® Geography, Kenneth C. Davis, New York Times bestselling author and creator of the Don't Know Much About® series of books, takes the reader on a fascinating, breathtaking, and hilarious grand tour of the planet Earth—opening our eyes and imaginations to a wide, wild, and wonderful world we never knew. In this newly revised, updated, and expanded edition of the classic anti-textbook, he reflects on many of the profound and important changes that have occurred on our planet in the last twenty years.
|“Davis pulls the reader west and east across the page with humor and a fresh viewpoint.” - USA Today
“Kenneth C. Davis returns to make geography buffs of us all!” - San Francisco Chronicle
“Playful...fun...Davis pumps life into the subject....His book will go a long way in helping people to answer that simple, important question: ‘Where am I?’” - Chicago Tribune
“Davis manages to make learning about the world fun....By the time you finish, you will know more about geography than you ever learned in school.” - Houston Post
PUBLISHER:
HarperCollins
ISBN-10:
0062043560
ISBN-13:
9780062043566
BINDING:
Paperback / softback
PUBLICATION YEAR:
2013
NUMBER OF PAGES:
368
BOOK DIMENSIONS:
8.00(H) x 5.31(W) x 0.83(D)
AUDIENCE TYPE:
General / adult
LANGUAGE:
English