Books in Brief

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R. H. Osborne. EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE: AN INTRODUCTORY GEOGRAPHY. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967 (originally published as EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE: A GEOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION TO SEVEN SOCIALIST STATES. London: Chatto and Windus, 1966). 384 pages, maps and statistical tables in appendix. $7.50.

Herbert Riehl. INTRODUCTION TO THE ATMOSPHERE. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965. 365 pages. $8.95.     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: CATCHMENT EXPERIMENTS IN FLUVIAL GEOMOR-PHOLOGY. Edited by T. P. Burt and D.E. Walling. CARBON DIOXIDE: FRIEND OR FOE? An inquiry into the Climatic and Agricultural Consequences of the Rapidly Rising CO₂ Content of Earth's Atmosphere, by Sherwood B. Idso. LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY AND LAND USE, by A.P.A. Vink. Longman AN ATLAS OF AFRICAN AFFAIRS, by I. Griffiths. THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTHEASTERN TASMANIA, by N. Caine. SCOTLAND'S ENVIRONMENT DURING THE LAST 30,000 YEARS, by R.J. Price AN INTRODUCTION TO SOUTH ASIA, by B.H. Farmer. URBAN STORM WATER HYDROLOGY. Edited by David F. Kibler.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF MAP PROJECTION. By James Mainwaring
MAP PROJECTIONS. By George P. Kellaway
GLOBES, MAPS, AND SKYWAYS. By Hubert A. Bauer
WORLD MAPS AND GLOBES. By Irving Fisher and O. M. Miller     

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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF MAP PROJECTIONS by J.A.Steers.

MAPS AND MAP-MAKERS by R. V. Tooley.

MODERN CARTOGRAPHY, BASE MAPS FOR WORD NEEDS

ATLAS OF DENMARK I. THE LANDSCLPES by Axel Schou, H. Hagerup Kobenhavn

LUNENBURGER HEIMATLAS by Bruno Schuttau and Paul Hahn     

A Sixth-From Textbook

Book reviewed in this article:
AN INTRODUCTION TO ADVANCED GEOGRAPHY. By E. W. H. Briault and J. H. Hubbard     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
SOUTHERN LANDSCAPES: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF BILL BROCKIE AND RAY HARGREAVES. Edited by Geoff Kearsley and Blair Fitzharris, Dunedin: Department of Geography, University of Otago, 1990, pp.360.
POPIULESIN BLONG HONIARA: OLKETA POPIULESIN BLONG 1986 SENSIS. By A. C. Walsh, Honiara: Department of Statistics, and Palmerston North: Board of Development Studies, Massey University
PRIESTS AND PROGRAMMERS: TECHNOLOGIES OF POWER IN THE ENGINEERED LANDSCAPE OF BALI. By Stephen Lansing
COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN GEOGRAPHY. By Paul Mather
INTRODUCTION TO TOURISM IN AUSTRALIA: IMPACTS, PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT. By C. M. Hall
TAMING THE GREAT SOUTH LAND: A HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF NATURE IN AUSTRALIA. By W. J. Lines
PEOPLE, PLACES, PATTERNS, PROCESSES: GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE CANADIAN PAST. Edited by Graeme Wynn
STUDYING NEW ZEALAND HISTORY. By G. A. Wood, Dunedin
LOCAL HISTORY: A SHORT GUIDE TO RESEARCHING, WRITING AND PUBLISHING A LOCAL HISTORY. By Gavin McLean
THE NATIVE FORESTS OF NEW ZEALAND. By John Halkett     

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Book reviewed in this article: GEOGRAPHY AND RETAILING. By Peter Scott. LANDFORMS OF COLD CLIMATES. By J. L. Davies. ATLAS OF BUNDALEER PLAINS AND TATALA. By F. M. Rothery. (Introduction by N. G. Butlin and J. N. Jennings.) THE EUROPEAN PEASANTRY: THE FINAL PHASE. By S. H. Franklin. AUSTRALIA WET OR DRY? THE PHYSICAL AND ECONOMIC LIMITS TO THE EXPANSION OF IRRIGATION. By B. R. Davidson. THE SEARCH FOR THE ISLANDS OF SOLOMON 1567–1838. By Colin Jack-Hinton. CAPITALISM PRIMITIVE AND MODERN. By T. Scarlett Epstein. PACIFIC MARKET PLACES. Edited by H. C. Brookfield. WEST AFRICA. By W. B. Morgan andj. C. Pugh. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS IN GEOGRAPHY. By Leslie J. King. PATTERNS OF INDUSTRIES. By R. S. Mathieson. PATTERNS OF CITIES. By A. J. Rose. ADMINISTRATION IN NEW ZEALAND'S MULTI-RACIAL SOCIETY. Edited by R. H. Brookes and I. H. Kawharu. ANTARCTIC MAP FOLIO SERIES. Folio 7, Glaciers of the Antarctic. By J. Mercer; and Folio 8, The Antarctic Atmosphere: Climatology of the Surface Environment. By W. S. Weyant. THE ARID ZONES. By K. Walton. LAND USE CAPABILITY SURVEY HANDBOOK. Water and Soil Division, Ministry of Works, Wellington QUANTITATIVE GEOGRAPHY. By John P. Cole and Cuchlaine A. M. King. AN INTRODUCTION TO QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS IN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY. By Maurice H. Ycatcs. URBAN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND: A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY TO 1966. By G. Breese. ARID LANDS OP AUSTRALIA. Edited by R. O. Slatyer and R. A. Perry. GROWTH OF THE WORLD'S URBAN AND RURAL POPULATION, 1920–2000. READINGS IN CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY. Edited by Robert M. Irving. CANADA: A GEOGRAPHICAL INTERPRETATION. Edited by John Warkentin. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED: Notice of a book on these pages does not preclude its subsequent review in New Zealand Geographer or New Zealand Journal of Geography Australia New Zealand and the South-West Pacific. By J. H. Holmes. North West England. By W. E. Marsden. Geographical Digest. Edited by Harold Fullard. Landscape Studies. By J. H. Shaw and F. G. Kirkwood. Antarctica. By John Bechervaise. Hong Kong and the Philippines. By John Whiteley. The European Peasantry. By S. H. Franklin. Physical and Information Models in Geography. Edited by Richard J. Chorley and Peter Haggett. Integrated Models in Geography. Edited by Richard J. Chorley and Peter Haggett. Mt. Wilhelm Studies I: The Alpine and Subalpine Vegetation. By L. K. Wade and D. N. McVean. World Problems: A Topic Geography. By M. Long and B. S. Roberson. Matupit: Land, Politics and Change among the Tolai of New Britain. By A. L. Epstein. Brother Wohlers. By Sheila Natusch. The Camel in Australia. By Tom. L. McKnight. South Australia From the Air. Edited by Michael Williams. Fiji in the Pacific. By G. T. A. Kerr and T. A. Donnelly. North West Europe. By F. R. Dobson and H. E. Virgo. Senior Geography. By V. G. Honour, D. Hopley and A. R. Dyer. Macquarie Island. By J. S. Compston. Atlas Four. Edited by J. David Thompson. Europe in Maps. By R. Knowles and P. D. E. Stowc. The Arid Lands. R. L. Heathcote and C. R. Twidale. Fishing. By R. S. Mathieson. Wheat. By Hylda A. Rolfe.     

GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS

FINDING THE WALLS OF TROY: Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik. By Susan Heuck Allen . THE WORLD OF ANDRÉ LE NÔTRE. By Thierry Mariage . Translated by Graham Larkin . “WHAT NATURE SUFFERS TO GROE”: Life, Labor, and Landscape on the Georgia Coast, 1680–1920. By Mart A. Stewart . SURVEYING THE RECORD: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930. Edited by Edward C. Carter II. BEYOND THE NEON LIGHTS: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century. By Hanchao Lu . LIVING HERITAGE: Vernacular Environment in China. Edited by Kai ‐Yin FROM AZTEC TO HIGH TECH: Architecture and Landscape across the Mexico‐United States Border. By Lawrence A. Herzog . SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN: An Environmental History of the Twentieth‐Century World. By J. R. McNeill .     

GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS

THE COUNTRY IN THE CITY: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area. By Richard Walker RETURN TO THE CENTER: Culture, Public Space, and City Building in a Global Era. By Lawrence A. Herzog GAINING GROUND: A HISTORY OF LANDMAKING IN BOSTON. By Nancy S. Seasholes THE FUTURE CITY ON THE INLAND SEA: A History of Imaginative Geographies of Lake Superior. By Eric D. Olmanson ATLANTIC REVERBERATIONS: French Representations of an American Presidential Election. By Paul C. Adams     

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Book reviewed in this article: THE EVOLUTION OF POLYNESIAN CHIEFDOMS. Patrick Vinton Kirch. AN INDUSTRIAL GEOGRAPHY OF JAPAN. Edited by K. Murata. THE NATURE OF PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. By K. J. Gregory, Edward Arnold. SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY IN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE. Edited by J. Eyles. SILCON LANDSCAPES. Edited by P. Hall and A. Markusen. Allen and Unwin. GEOGRAPHY MATTERS! A READER. Edited by D. Massey and J. Allen. REGIONS IN QUESTION: SPACE, DEVELOPMENT THEORY AND REGIONAL POLICY, by C. Gore, Methuen. A GEOGRAPHICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR AMERICAN LIBRARIES. Edited by Chauncy D. Harris. DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS, RED OR GREEN ALTERNATIVES? By Michael Redclift, Methuen THE MAKING OF NEW ZEALAND: AN ECONOMIC HISTORY. By G. R. Hawke. GEOMORPHOLOGY. By R. J. Chorley, S. A. Schumm and D. E. Sugden.     

Geographical Reviews

A CENTURY OF BRITISH GEOGRAPHY. Edited by RON JOHNSTON and MICHAEL WILLIAMS. THE EUROPEANS: A Geography of People, Culture, and Environment. By ROBERT C. OSTERGREN and JOHN G. RICE. A COMPANION TO FEMINIST GEOGRAPHY. Edited by LISE NELSON and JONI SEAGER. MILITARY GEOGRAPHIES. By RACHEL WOODWARD. MEMORY AND THE IMPACT OF POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION IN PUBLIC SPACE. Edited by DANIEL J. WALKOWITZ and LISA MAYA KNAUER. THAILAND AT THE MARGINS: Internationalization of the State and the Transformation of Labour. By JIM GLASSMAN.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
HE KORERO PURAKAU MO NGA TAUNAHANA-HATANGA A NGA TUPUNA. PLACE NAMES OF THE ANCESTORS. A MAORI ORAL HISTORY ATLAS.
NGA TOHU PUMAHARA. THE SURVEY PEGS OF THE PAST. UNDERSTANDING MAORI PLACE NAMES.
BANKS PENINSULA: CRADLE OF CANTERBURY. By Gordon Ogilvie
THE ECONOMICS OF PART-TIME FARMING. By Ruth Gasson
FROM BUSH-BURN TO BUTTER. By Eric Warr
THE WAKE OF ERASMUS: SAINTS, SCHOLARS, AND STUDIA IN MEDIAEVAL NORDEN. By Anne Buttimer
THE SORROW AND THE PRIDE. NEW ZEALAND WAR MEMORIALS. By C. Maclean and J. Phillips
CITIES IN SPACE: CITIES AS PLACE. By D. T. Herbert and C. J. Thomas
TE IWI MAORI. A NEW ZEALAND POPULATION, PAST, PRESENT, AND PROJECTED. By I. Pool
Department of History Massey University
ANTARCTICA AND GLOBAL CLIMATIC CHANGE. Edited by Colin Harris and Bernard Stonehouse
FARM WOMEN IN PIAKO COUNTY. By M. Begg.
GEOGRAPHERS ON FIJI: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. By R. Chandra, Suva     

GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: ATLAS DE MAPAS HISTÓRICOS DE HONDURAS/HONDURAS, AN ATLAS OF HISTORICAL MAPS. By William Van Davidson. CITIES OF EUROPE: Changing Contexts, Local Arrangements, and the Challenge to Urban Cohesion. Edited by Yuri Kazepov. THE IDEA OF LATIN AMERICA. By Walter D. Mignolo. MAGNOLIAS WITHOUT MOONLIGHT: The American South from Regional Confederacy to National Integration. By Sheldon Hackney. BORDER LANDSCAPES: The Politics of Akha Land Use in China and Thailand. By Janet C. Sturgeon. SECOND GROWTH: Community Economic Development in Rural British Columbia. By Sean Markey, John T. Pierce, Kelly Vodden, and Mark Roseland. LIVING WITH THE CHANGING CALIFORNIA COAST. By Gary Griggs, Kiki Patsch, and Lauret Savoy. CHICAGO: A Geography of the City and Its Region. By John C. Hudson.     

REVIEWS: A Hundred Years After

Book reviewed in this article:
GEOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND. By Ferdinand von Hochstetter, translated by C. A. Fleming.
GUTHRIE-SMITH OF TUTIRA. By A. E. Woodhouse.
WEST COAST REGION. National Resources Survey, Part 1. Compiled by the Town and Country
TUWHARETOA: THE HISTORY OF THE MAORI PEOPLE OF THE TAUPO DISTRICT. By John Te H. Grace.
THE GREAT HARBOUR OF TARA: TRADITIONAL MAORI PLACE-NAMES AND SITES OF WELLINGTON HARBOUR AND ENVIRONS. By G. Leslie Adkin.
NORTHERN APPROACHES. By C. W. S. Moore.
EARLY DAYS IN CENTRAL OTAGO. By Robert Gilkison.
HANDBOOK TO THE ARTHUR'S PASS NATIONAL PARK. Christchurch: Arthur's Pass National Park Board, 1958
MOUNT COOK NATIONAL PARK HANDBOOK. Edited by W. P. Packard.
WORLD GEOGRAPHY. Edited by Otis W. Freeman and John W. Morris.
THE CONURBATIONS OF GREAT BRITAIN. By T. W. Freeman.     

GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS

THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGINATION: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture. By Lawrence Buell . HUMAN IMPACT ON THE EARTH. By William B. Meyer . ECOSYSTEM GEOGRAPHY. By Robert G. Bailey ; illustrated by Lev Ropes LAND USE AND SOCIETY: Geography, Law, and Public Policy. By Rutherford H. Platt . CAUGHT IN THE NET: The Conflict between Shrimpers and Conservationists. By Anthony V. Margavio and Craig J. Forsyth . BRING BACK THE BUFFALO! A Sustainable Future for America's Great Plains. By Ernest Callenbach . GUIDE TO KANSAS ARCHITECTURE. By David H. Sachs and George Ehrlich . RELIGION AND WINE: A Cultural History of Wine Drinking in the United States. By Robert C. Fuller . THE PROMISE OF PARADISE: Recreational and Retirement Communities in the United States since 1950. By Hubert B. Stroud . ERRANT JOURNEYS: Adventure Travel in a Modern Age. By David Zurick . THE DUST ROSE LIKE SMOKE: The Subjugation of the Zulu and Sioux. By James O. Gump . THE PEOPLING OF AFRICA: A Geographic Interpretation. By James L. Newman . THE MAGIC MOUNTAINS: Hill Stations and the British Raj. By Dane Kennedy . THE GENIUS OF C. WARREN THORNTHWAITE, CLIMATOLOGIST-GEOGRAPHER. By John R. Mather and Marie Sanderson .     

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Book reviewed in this article:
GEOMORPHOLOGY: WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO AUSTRALIA. By C. R. Twidale, Melbourne.
COASTS. By E. C. F. Bird.
INDIA AND PAKISTAN. By O. H. K. Spate and A. T. A. Learmonth, with the collaboration of A. M. Learmonth, and a chapter on Ceylon by B. H. Farmer. Third Edition, London.
ESSAYS IN POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY. Edited by Charles A. Fisher.
THE GEOGRAPHY OF STATE POLICIES. By J. R. V. Prcscott.
URBAN REDEVELOPMENT IN AUSTRALIA. Edited by P. N. Troy, Canberra.
THE FATEFUL VOYAGE OF THE ST JEAN BAPTISTE. By J. Dunmore.
EXPLORING THE FRONTIERS. An Inaugural Lecture given by Professor Craig Duncan, first Professor of Geography, on Tuesday, 19 July, 1966. Reprinted from Seven Inaugural Lectures by the Foundation Professors of the University 1965–1966.
POLLUTION: WHAT IT IS; WHAT IT DOES; WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT. Edited by W. J. Maunder.     

GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS

THE NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE. By Joseph S. Wood , with a contribution by Michael P. Steinitz . CAPROCK CANYONLANDS: Journeys into the Heart of the Southern Plains. By Dan Flores . LET THE COWBOY RIDE: Cattle Ranching in the American West. By Paul F. Starrs WANDERING PEOPLES: Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700–1850. By Cynthia Radding . RAINFOREST CITIES: Urbanization, Development, and Globalization of the Brazilian Amazon. By John O. Browder and Brian J. Godfrey . THE ENCHANTED AMAZON RAIN FOREST: Stories from a Vanishing World. By Nigel J. H. Smith HISTORICAL ECOLOGY IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS: Prehistoric Environmental and Landscape Change. Edited by Patrick V. Kirch and Terry L. Hunt MAPPING MEN AND EMPIRE: A Geography of Adventure. By Richard Phillips . MAPPING AN EMPIRE: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765–1843. By Matthew H. Edney . CHARTING AN EMPIRE: Geography at the English Universities, 1580–1620. By Lesley B. Cormack . THE MYTH OF CONTINENTS: A Critique of Metageography. By Martin W. Lewis and Kären E. Wigen .     

Geographical Reviews

BRAZIL THROUGH THE EYES OF WILLIAM JAMES: Letters, Diaries, and Drawings THE COLONIAL SPANISH‐AMERICAN CITY: Urban Life in the Age of Atlantic Capitalism. By Jay Kinsbruner GREAT POWERS AND GEOPOLITICAL CHANGE. By Jakub J. Grygiel CITY TREES: A Historical Geography from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth Century. By Henry W. Lawrence AN ALLIANCE OF WOMEN: Immigration and the Politics of Race. By Heather Merrill FIELD METHODS IN REMOTE SENSING. By Roger M. McCoy     

GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS

GEORGE PERKINS MARSH: Prophet of Conservation. By David Lowenthal FROM WEST TO EAST: California and the Making of the American Mind. By Stephen Schwartz GEOGRAPHY AND WORLDVIEW: A Christian Reconnaissance. By Henk Aay and Sander Griffioen THE LEGEND OF THE GOLDEN BOAT: Regulation, Trade and Traders in the Borderlands of Laos, Thailand, China and Burma. By Andrew Walker SHADY PRACTICES: Agroforestry and Gender Politics in The Gambia. By Richard A. Schroeder THE WORKS: The Industrial Architecture of the United States. By Betsy Hunter Bradley BETWEEN MONTMARTRE AND THE MUDD CLUB: Popular Music and the Avant‐Garde. By Bernard Gendron     

Geographical Classics

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THE GEOGRAPHY OF CRIME AND VIOLENCE: A SPATIAL AND ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE. By Daniel E. Georges. Resource Papers for College Geography, Resource Paper No. 78-1. Washington, D.C.: Association of American Geographers, 1978. Pp. vii + 28, $2.50.

SOURCEBOOK ON THE ENVIRONMENT: A GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE. Edited by Kenneth A. Hammond, George Macinko, and Wilma 6. Fairchild. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. Pp. x + 613, $20.00.