World Geography provides a coherent and organized geography of the world as we now know it. It looks at how people are distributed over the earth, how they make their living from it, and how they transform it. Various geographical regions of the world are discussed in 18 chapters including individual nations within each of these regions. Written in a logical, cogent, and convincing style, the principles of brevity and clarity have been followed throughout this third edition. Combining informative text with a wealth of the latest data, maps, and illustrations, this book offers comprehensive coverage of almost all the countries of the world in a single volume.