Book Review: Interpreting Our World: 100 Discoveries that Revolutionized Geography

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  • Joseph A. Hurley

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https://doi.org/10.5860/rusq.57.2.6541

Abstract

Advances within the discipline of geography have changed the way that we understand and engage with the world. Joseph J. Kerski’s Interpreting our World: 100 Discoveries that Revolutionized Geography focuses on some of the most important discoveries in geography that have changed the discipline of geography and society’s understanding of the world. Interpreting our World is a single-volume encyclopedia that contains an introduction essay, six regional maps that depict the geographic locations of the volume’s entries, a selected chronology of key events, one hundred alphabetically arranged entries, and an index.

Author Biography

Joseph A. Hurley

Joseph A. Hurley, Data Services and GIS Librarian, Georgia State University Library, Atlanta, Georgia

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2017-12-28

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Sources: Reference Books