Don't Know Much about Geography by Kenneth Davis

Everything You Need to Know About the World but Never Learned

Grade:  6th  through 12

Summary: Who Killed the Dead Sea? What's So Bad about the Badlands? Fun, humorous and full of information for the geographically ignorant, this book makes learning geography entertaining.

For example, Columbus thought the world looked like a pear and he was proven right in 1958!  Davis looks at the world map today and explores how it has been affected by historical and political changes. Transforming events like the crumbling of the Berlin Wall, the demise of the Soviet Union, and the Persian Gulf War all involved questions of geography!

 From often amusing perceptions people have had through the ages about the world and the universe to the changing map of today, Davis shows how geography is really a great crossroads of many fields: biology, meteorology, astronomy, history, economics, and even politics. In this lively, entertaining, and endlessly fascinating presentation, you'll hear about the personalities that helped shape the world and learn the answers to questions that have vexed most of us since grade school.

 
Book Details
Format: Hardcover
Condition : good; Ex-library book with plastic dj; pocket on front endpage and label inside back cover. some edge wear. binding is good and pages are clean and whole.
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
ISBN: 0688103324
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