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BIG SURF, DEEP DIVES, AND THE ISLANDS: My Life in the Ocean. By Ricky Grigg . MONTANA GHOST DANCE: Essays on Land and Life. By John B. Wright . BASEBALL, BARNS, AND BLUEGRASS: A Geography of American Folklife. Edited by George O. Carney . ATLAS OF THE IRISH RURAL LANDSCAPE. Edited by F. H. A. Aalen , Kevin Whelan , and Matthew Stout . THE TASTE OF AMERICAN PLACE: A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods. Edited by Barbara G. Shortridge and James R. Shortridge . NO FOREIGN FOOD: The American Diet in Time and Place. By Richard Pillsbury . ANIMAL GEOGRAPHIES: Place, Politics, and Identity in the Nature-Culture Borderlands. Edited by Jennifer Wolch and Jody Emel . THE COTTON PLANTATION SOUTH SINCE THE CIVIL WAR. By Charles S. Aiken .     

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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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THE LIE OF THE LAND: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape. By Don Mitchell . LOST LANDSCAPES AND FAILED ECONOMIES: The Search for a Value of Place. By Thomas Michael Power . THE ORGANIC MACHINE: The Remaking of the Columbia River. By Richard White . ENTITLEMENTS TO NATURAL RESOURCES: Contours of Political Environmental Geography. By Ton Dietz . ECOLOGY AND EQUITY: The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India. BY Madhav Gadgil and Ramchandra Guha . NEPAL: A Himalayan Kingdom in Transition. By Pradyumna P. Karan and Hiroshi Ishii . ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS: Ideas, Politics and Planning. By J. Douglas Porteous . PICTURING KNOWLEDGE: Historical and Philosophical Problems Concerning the Use of Art in Science. Edited by Brian S. Baigrie . TAKING MEASURES ACROSS THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE. By James Corner and Alex S. Mac Lean . SPACES OF IDENTITY: Global Media, Electronic Landscapes and Cultural Boundaries. By David Morley and Kevin Robins TREE MANAGEMENT IN FARMER STRATEGIES: Responses to Agricultural Intensification. Edited by J. E. Michael Arnold and Peter A. Dewees . THE GREAT FLOOD OF 1993: Causes, Impacts, and Responses. Edited by Stanley A. Chagnon . DECIDING TO BE LEGAL: A Maya Community in Houston. By Jacqueline Maria Hagan . THE PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF AFRICA. Edited by W. M. Adams , A. S. Goudie , and A. R. Orme . THE DESTRUCTION OF SODOM, GOMORRAH, AND JERICHO: Geological, Climatological, and Archaeological Background. By David Neev and K. O. Emery . THE FROZEN ECHO: Greenland and the Exploration of North America ca. a.d. 1000–1500. By Kirsten A. Seaver . OLIVES: The Life and Lore of the Noble Fruit. By Mort Rosenblum .     

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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.     

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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:
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.     

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PUTTING “AMERICA” ON THE MAP: The Story of the Most Important Graphic Document in the History of the United States. By Seymour I. Schwartz THE STATE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE: How the USA Shapes the World. By Stephen Burman BRITISH ATLANTIC, AMERICAN FRONTIER: Spaces of Power in Early Modern British America. By Stephen J. Hornsby A DESCRIPTION OF NEW NETHERLAND. By Adriaen van der Donck MIGRANTS TO THE METROPOLIS: The Rise of Immigrant Gateway Cities. Edited by Marie Price and Lisa Benton ‐Short FRONTIERS OF FEMININITY: A New Historical Geography of the Nineteenth‐Century American West. By Karen M. Morin     

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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.     

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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.     

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Book reviewed in this article: TRANSNATIONALISM AND NEW AFRICAN IMMIGRATION TO SOUTH AFRICA. Edited by Jonathan Crush and David A. McDonald . WALKING THE TIGHT ROPE: Informal Livelihoods and Social Networks in a West African City. By Ilda Lourenço ‐Lindell . EGYPT: An Economic Geography. By Fouad N. Ibrahim and Barbara Ibrahim . SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS IN KALAHARI ENVIRONMENTS: Contributions to Global Debates. Edited by Deborah Sporton and David S. G. Thomas . CLIMATE CHANGE & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: Prospects for Developing Countries. Edited by Anil Markandya and Kirsten Halsnaes . THE STRAITS OF MALACCA: Gateway or Gauntlet? By Donald B. Freeman .     

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Book reviewed in this article: SEEING THROUGH MAPS: The Power of Images to Shape Our World View. By Ward L. Kaiser and Denis Wood . LANDSCAPE, NATURE, AND THE BODY POLITIC: From Britain's Renaissance to America's New World. By Kenneth Olwig . OPENING THE OZARKS: A Historical Geography of Missouri's Ste. Genevieve District, 1760–1830. By Walter A. Schroeder . WETLANDS DRAINAGE, RIVER MODIFICATION, AND SECTORAL CONFLICT IN THE LOWER ILLINOIS VALLEY, 1890–1930. By John Thompson . ON THE BORDER: An Environmental History of San Antonio. Edited by Char Miller . WESTERN PLACES, AMERICAN MYTHS: How We Think about the West. Edited by Gary J. Hausladen . RANCHING WEST OF THE 100^TM MERIDIAN: Culture, Ecology, and Economics. Edited by Richard L. Knight , Wendell C. Gilgert , and Ed Marston .     

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LIVING WITH NATURE'S EXTREMES: The Life of Gilbert Fowler White. By Robert E. Hinshaw . MANAGING WATER RESOURCES: Past and Present. Edited by Julie Trottier and Paul Slack . ENVIRONMENTALITY: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects. By Arun Agrawal . ILLUSTRATED ATLAS OF THE HIMALAYA. By David Zurick and Julsun Pacheco , with Basanta Shrestha and Birendra Bajracharya . WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. Edited by Pnina Motzafi ‐Haller . NATURE AND THE CITY: Making Environmental Policy in Toronto and Los Angeles. By Gene Desfor and Roger Keil . THE STEAMER PARISH: The Rise and Fall of Missionary Medicine on an African Frontier. By Charles M. Good Jr. WAR EPIDEMICS: An Historical Geography of Infectious Diseases in Military Conflict and Civil Strife, 1850–2000. By M. A. Smallman ‐Raynor and A. D. Cliff     

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ARIDLAND SPRINGS IN NORTH AMERICA: Ecology and Conservation. Edited by Lawrence E. Stevens and Vicky J. Meretsky TRINCHERAS SITES IN TIME, SPACE, AND SOCIETY. Edited by Suzanne K. Fish , Paul R. Fish , and M. Elisa Villalpando THE TASTE OF PLACE: A Cultural Journey into Terroir. By Amy B. Trubek THE GROWTH AND COLLAPSE OF PACIFIC ISLAND SOCIETIES: Archaeological and Demographic Perspectives. Edited by Patrick V. Kirch and Jean –Louis Rallu LEPROSY AND EMPIRE: A Medical and Cultural History. By Rod Edmond EMOTIONAL GEOGRAPHIES. Edited by Joyce Davidson , Liz Bondi , and Mick Smith     

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Book reviewed in this article:
INTRODUCING THE MANAWATU. Edited by A. G. Anderson and B. G. R. Saunders
LANDSCAPE DRAWING. By Geoffrey E. Hutchings.
THE CHANGING MAP OF ASIA: A POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY. Edited by W. G. East and O. H. K. Spate.
ATLAS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. By Norton Ginsburg     

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WEATHER AND WEATHER MAPS. Edited by Gosta H. Liljequist
THE TIME OF DARKNESS. By R. J. Blong
BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS IN GEOGRAPHY REVISITED. Edited by Kevin R. Cox and Reginald G. Golledge
GOVERNMENT AND CAPITALISM: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CHOICE IN TWENTIETH CENTURY AUSTRALIA. By N. G. Butlin, A. Barnard and J. J. Pincus.
CINDERELLAS OF THE EMPIRE. By Barrie Macdonald     

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ISLANDS OF THE MIND: How the Human Imagination Created the Atlantic World. By John R. Gillis. A WORLD OF ISLANDS: An Island Studies Reader. Edited by Godfrey Baldacchino.     

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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 .     

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Book reviewed in this article:
GREAT DAYS IN NEW ZEALAND EXPLORATION: THE BUSH AND THE RAIN. By John Pascoe.
A SURVEY OF NEW ZEALAND POPULATION: An Analysis of Past Trends and an Estimate of Future Growth. Compiled by the Town and Country Planning Branch, Ministry of Works.
ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE SOUTH SEAS. Essays presented to H. D. Skinner. Edited by J. D. Freeman and W. R. Geddes.
OXFORD ATLAS FOR NEW ZEALAND—STUDENTS' EDITION. Advisory Editor, R. G. Lister. London and Wellington
GEOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS IN MEMORY OF ALAN G. OGILVIE. Edited by R. Miller and J. Wreford Watson.
THE ST. LAWRENCE SEAWAY. By T. L. Hills.
AFRICA: ITS PEOPLE AND THEIR CULTURE HISTORY. By G. P. Murdock.
BRITISH WEATHER IN MAPS. By J. A. Taylor and R. A. Yates.     

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Book reviewed in this article: YOUR PRIVATE SKY: R. Buckminster Fuller, The Art of Design Science. Edited by Joachim Krausse and Claude Lichtenstein . Translated by Steven Lindberg and Julia Thorson . PRINCE HENRY ‘THE NAVIGATOR’: A Life. By Peter Russell SPEAKING THROUGH THE ASPENS: Basque Tree Carvings in California and Nevada. By J. Mallea ‐Olaetxe . PETROLIA: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom. By Brian Black CRAFTING THE CULTURE AND HISTORY OF FRENCH CHOCOLATE. By Susan J. Terrio . VIRGINIA IN MAPS: Four Centuries of Settlement, Growth, and Development. Edited by Richard W. Stephenson and Marianne M. Mc Kee . THE ATLAS OF EXPERIENCE. By Louise van Swaaij and Jean Klare .     

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CALVINISTS INCORPORATED: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier. By Anne Kelly Knowles . THE RAIN FORESTS OF HOME: Profile of a North American Bioregion. Edited by Peter K. Schoonmaker , Bettina von Hagen , and Edward C. Wolf . CONSERVATION THROUGH CULTURAL SURVIVAL: Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas. Edited by Stan Stevens . THE END OF THE PEASANTRY: The Rural Labor Movement in Northeast Brazil, 1961–1988. By Anthony W. Pereira . THIRDSPACE: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-and-Imagined Places. By Edward W. Soja . ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: People, Politics and Sustainable Development. Edited by Michael J. G. Parnwell and Raymond L. Bryant . TRADITION AND REFORM: Land Tenure and Rural Development in South-East Asia. By Mark Cleary and Peter Eaton . WILD CHINA. Text by John Mac Kinnon ; photographs by Nigel Hicks . JAPANESE AMERICANS: The Formation and Transformations of an Ethnic Group. By Paul R. Spickard . THE JAPANESE CITY. Edited by Pradyumna P. Karan and Kristin Stapleton . THE EMPTINESS OF JAPANESE AFFLUENCE. By Gavan Mc Cormack . GÉOGRAPHIE DE LA NUIT. By Luc Bureau . RUSSIA AND THE POST-SOVIET SCENE: A Geographical Perspective. By James H. Bater . HOMO GEOGRAPHICUS: A Framework for Action, Awareness, and Moral Concern. By Robert David Sack . STRATEGIC GEOGRAPHY AND THE CHANGING MIDDLE EAST. By Geoffrey Kemp and Robert E. Harkavy .