"Brett McGillivray focuses on the combination of physical processes that produced a spectacular variety of mountains, rivers, lakes, islands, fjords, forests, and minerals, explaining the forces that created the province and the natural hazards that can reshape it. A concise exa…
"Brett McGillivray focuses on the combination of physical processes that produced a spectacular variety of mountains, rivers, lakes, islands, fjords, forests, and minerals, explaining the forces that created the province and the natural hazards that can reshape it. A concise exa…
Introductory guide to the Eskimos, Indians and Aleuts. Focus is on their life-styles, traditions and cultures.
"Ligon's True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados is the most significant book-length English text written about the Caribbean in the seventeenth century. [It] allows one to see the contested process behind the making of the Caribbean sugar/African slavery complex. Kuppe…
This edition of Richard Ligon's book about the Caribbean in the seventeenth century includes an introduction that places the author and Barbados in historical context.
"Readers can trace the natural history of the Hawaiian Archipelago through the book's twenty-eight chapters or focus on specific topics such as island formation by plate tectonics, plant and animal evolution, flightless birds and their fossil sites, Polynesian migrational histor…
Discusses the geography, history, economy, government, religion, people, foreign relations, and communities of Djibouti.