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Good. 368 pages Plates. Maps. Diagrams. Selected Reading. Appendices (including a General Bibliographical Note. )Index. No dust jacket present. Decorative cover. Scuff on front cover. Previous owner's mailing label and scuff on fep. The authors were professors of geography at University College London. Professor William Richard Mead died on 20 July 2014, nine days before his 99th birthday. He was elected an honorary member of the Norwegian Geographical Society in 1989 during the Society's centenary celebration. W.R. Mead was a prolific writer. His publications range from erudite scholarly works to popular scientific works. He authored or co-authored 30 books, 33 book chapters, and 120 journal articles, and many minor publications. Bill completed an external degree in economics (BSc Econ) at the London School of Economics (LSE), with economic geography and the geography of Europe as his specializations. He went on to do a master's degree (MSc Econ), again at the LSE. Wartime service in the Royal Air Force (RAF) took Bill first to Iceland for three months in 1941 and then to Canada, where he played a part in the establishment of an RAF school of navigation and was stationed from 1941 to 1943. In his spare time he traveled in Canada and the USA, which gave him (along with a visiting professorship in Minnesota in 1953) the basis for a later regional geography of North America. Regional geography is one of the major traditions of geography. It focuses on the interaction of different cultural and natural geofactors in a specific land or landscape, while its counterpart, systematic geography, concentrates on a specific geofactor at the global level. Attention is paid to unique characteristics of a particular region such as natural elements, human elements, and regionalization which covers the techniques of delineating space into regions. Rooted in the tradition of the German-speaking countries, the two pillars of regional geography are the idiographic study of specific places, countries, continents and the typological study of landscapes such as coastal regions, mountain regions, border regions, etc. Regional geography is also a certain approach to geographical study, comparable to quantitative geography or critical geography. This approach prevailed during the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, a period when then regional geography paradigm was central within the geographical sciences. The regional geography paradigm has influenced many other geographical sciences, including economic geography and geomorphology. Regional geography is still taught in some universities as a study of the major regions of the world. Some key words include Great Plains, Pacific Slope, American Dry Belt, Physical Frontier, Cordilleran, Undervelopment, Prairie, Agricultural Adjustment, Karst Lands, Niagara, Laurentian Shield, Northumberland Strait, Mackenzie Valley, Piedmont, and Drumlin Field.
