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Geography of the World

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Recently revised and superbly illustrated with full-color photographs and art on every page, Geography Of The World: The Essential Family Guide To Geography And Culture is an informed and informative, country-by-country, "user friendly" reference for home and school. Geography Of The World offers a straightforward survey of terrains, nations, and cultures all around the globe. Enhanced with full-color, detailed maps referencing the latest border changes between nations, and up-to-date information concerning climate, literacy, life expectancy, health care, ethnic groups, agriculture and industry, recent history and more, Geography Of The World is superb and highly recommended school and community library resource suitable for all ages.

This is an excellent book for all ages.

My only complaints about the book are that maps of individual countries are not included on the country's pages, but on pages for the regions. The book also needs to be updated in some regions. For example, it still list Saddam Hussein as the ruler of Iraq. I'm also not sure why it includes the number of televisions per 1,000 people as a statistic. I would have thought that income or infant mortality would have been more important.

Other than those issues, I truly love this book, and found it to be easy to read. It addresses native people of each country, rulers, currencies, food, and countless other aspects of life in every country in the world. There are sections on religion as well as on the oceans and both the Arctic and Antarctic regions.

I highly recommend this book.

This reference is organized, attractive and complete. I recommend this for anyone wanting to learn more about the world. It is great for teachers and students. I teach social studies and have many resources. This is one of my favorites.

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I was excited to open the package. English is my second language and this book gives me great visual concept for what I wanted to learn. I have encarta but the map didn't show the rivers and mountains as clear as this one does. This book organizes all info very nicely, easy to read. Thanks all the reviewer for helping me to choose the right thing.

I ordered this for my teen as she prepares to take the GED. It is a good, basic, clean, exciting text that provides a general overview of the world. I recommend it as a solid base for a beginner geographer.

This book is a really good basic geography book! If you want a solid reference book where you can get the basics and a good understanding of geography-then I do not think you will be disappointed. It might dwell more on social geography then I would like but it is very good

The book serves the purpose of brushing me up on locations, but it also catches my son's attention while I am reading it. The layout and pictures are enough to "squeeze" in a geography lesson.

Geography of the world is very informative, this book educate the minds about the cultures of different countries. I will encourage people to read this book (education is the key).

I admit I'm not much of a reader, but the beautiful and brilliant photographs in this book are quite impressive. In fact, with it snowing outside right now in southeast Pennsylvania, I have a sudden urge to look through this book and see places that AREN'T covered in snow, haha.

You also get to know about the rulers of certain places in the world, which was surprising to me. I wasn't expecting that kind of information to be in the book. I thought the book was mainly going to be about covering areas on the planet that would be fascinating to explore for yourself one day because of the beauty of the environments.

Overall, I highly recommend this book.

I enjoyed the book. Hoping to use it next year to supplement my lessons in World Geography. Nicely organized.