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All possible worlds: a history of geographical ideas. By GEOFFREY J. MARTIN and PRESTON E. JAMES. New York, Chichester, Brisbane, Toronto and Singapore: John Wiley and Sons, Third Edition, 1993, 585 pp. L62.00. ISBN 0 471 63414 X
The first edition of this widely cited account of the history of geography was published in 1972, with a second edition appearing in 1981. The basic structure of the book separates the subject matter into two parts: classical geography and modern geography, the latter of which is seen as beginning in Germany in 1874. Although the focus is on geography in the United States,...