The trivia lover's guide to the world : geography for the lost and found /

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Gary Fuller's entertaining and engaging guide enhances geographic know-how with good, old-fashioned fun, using trivia to open up new worlds of knowledge for all readers. Often dismissed as unimportant, trivia here highlights issues that are far from trivial, pondering, for example, what peacefu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fuller, Gary, 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c2012.
Temas:
Geography > Miscellanea.
Géographie > Miscellanées.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
TRAVEL > Budget.
TRAVEL > Hikes & Walks.
TRAVEL > Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
TRAVEL > Parks & Campgrounds.
Curiosities and wonders
Geography
Trivia and miscellanea
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: The Effects of Geographic Ignorance on the Modern World
  • Chapter 2: We Think Big, Sometimes Too Big
  • Chapter 3: Maps Are Flat, the World Isn't
  • Chapter 4: Africa Bashing? What's That?
  • Chapter 5: Places Aren't Always Where You Think They Should Be
  • Chapter 6: State Capitals and American Politics
  • Chapter 7: The Exception to Everything
  • Chapter 8: Married to a Stranger
  • Chapter 9: Why Old Maps Look Funny
  • Chapter 10: Military Uses of Geography
  • Chapter 11: Really Big Cities
  • Chapter 12: Agriculture and Tourism
  • Chapter 13: Geography and Religion
  • Chapter 14: Geographic Pockets of Isolation
  • Chapter 15: Geographic Incoherence
  • Chapter 16: Countries Breaking Apart
  • Chapter 17: Unity in Disunity
  • Chapter 18: Maps Fool Us Again!
  • Chapter 19: Culture Hearths
  • Chapter 20: Population Decline
  • Chapter 21: Geographic Differences and Civil War
  • Chapter 22: New Agricultural Crops
  • Chapter 23: Domestications
  • Chapter 24: Continental Tidbits
  • Chapter 25: Islands Divided
  • Chapter 26: Oceans and Seas
  • Chapter 27: Bridges
  • Chapter 28: Rivers
  • Chapter 29: Medical Geography
  • Chapter 30: Border Issues
  • Chapter 31: Geography of Sports
  • Chapter 32: Geography and Religion Revisited
  • Chapter 33: The North
  • Chapter 34: Prison Islands
  • Chapter 35: Canals
  • Chapter 36: Land and Sea Battles
  • Chapter 37: Buildings
  • Chapter 38: Mountain Peaks
  • Chapter 39: Lakes
  • Chapter 40: Outliers
  • Chapter 41: Cities
  • Chapter 42: Whatever Happened to ...?
  • Chapter 43: The Wild West
  • Chapter 44: Spatial Diffusion
  • Chapter 45: Parks
  • Chapter 46: Climate and Weather
  • About the Author.

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