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Field work is an important but often neglected facet of a sound undergraduate geography training program. Literature, both geographic and nongeographic, offers very few practical suggestions or realistic approaches that can be utilized in some way by geography departments organizing undergraduate field programs. This article eliminates a hiatus in the literature for it analyzes field work, explores proven methods of undergraduate field training, and describes the importance of the selection of a study area and field camp site. It stresses the value of careful organization, and problems of topic selection and field data generation, and provides a detailed model, a proven schedule, concomitantly with a sound approach to field work. The two-week field course with deferred papers is an immediate, realistic, and inexpensive solution to the problem of undergraduate field work. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An examination of geography books and periodicals reveals that social problems in America seem to have eluded most geographers. Nine elementary level texts, nine university texts, part of the High School Geography Project, twenty years each of The Geographical Review, Economic Geography, and the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, fifteen years of The Journal of Geography, and five years of The Professional Geographer were reviewed with the aim of examining their treatment of the black American. With few notable exceptions, this reviewer has found the field of geography to be wholly inadequate in its treatment of the black American. Many times the black man does not exist at all; at other times he is treated as an animal or an object. The tone of the writing is one of bland and amoral optimism. These omissions and distortions in geographic materials have helped to perpetuate and intensify the pattern of racial discrimination in the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Edited by C. N. Forward. RESIDENTIAL AND NEIGHBORHOOD STUDIES IN VICTORIA. Western Geographical Series, Vol. 5, Department of Geography, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 1973. 230 pages. Paper, $4.00. Donald Dewey. WHERE THE DOCTORS HAVE GONE: The Changing Distribution of Private Practice Physicians in the Chicago Metropolitan Area, 1950-1970. Illinois Regional Medical Program, Chicago Regional Hospital Study, Research Paper, Chicago, Illinois, 1973. 164 pages. Paper, $4.00. F. C. Evans. A FIRST GEOGRAPHY OF THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN. Cambridge University Press, New York, N. Y., 1972. 48 pages. Paper cover, $1.95. Nicholas H. Coomber and Asit K. Biswas. EVALUATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL INTANGIBLES. Genera Press, P. 0. Box 336, Bronxville, N. Y. 10708, 1972. 77 pages. Paper cover, no price. Editors -William Loy and Richard B. Mitchener. AN AGRICULTURAL ATLAS OF LANE COUNTY. Lane Council of Governments, Eugene, Oregon, 1972. 69 pages. Paper, no price. Edited by Bill Cate. DIRECTORY OF ENVl RONM ENTAL CONSULTANTS. Directory Press, St. Louis, Missouri, 1973. 46 pages, no price. Rosemary J. More. WATER AND MAN. Collins Clear Type Press, Great Britain, 1972. 96 pages. Cloth cover, no price. Raymond Johnson. MINES & QUARRIES: In Britain. Macmillan Education Ltd., London, England and New York, N. Y., 1971. 80 pages. Paper, no price. Karl Lukan. MOUNTAIN ADVENTURES. Franklin Watts, Inc., a subsidiary of Grolier, Inc., New York, N. Y., 1972. 128 pages. Library, $5.95. John J. Hidore. FOUNDATIONS OF GEOGRAPHY SERIES. A GEOGRAPHY OF THE ATMOSPHERE. Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers, Dubuque, Iowa, 1972. 106 pages, $1.95. James P. Barry. THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE, 1803: Thomas Jefferson Doubles the Area of the United States. Franklin Watts, Inc., a subsidiary of Grolier Incorporated, New York, N. Y., 1973. 89 pages. Library, $3.95. Stuart C. Rothwell. A GEOGRAPHY OF EARTH FORM, second edition. Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers, Dubuque, Iowa, 1973. The Brown Foundations of Geography Series. 117 pages. Paper, $1.95. Valeria Pitt. LET'S FIND OUT ABOUT COMMUNICATIONS. Franklin Watts, Inc., a subsidiary of Grolier Incorporated. New York, N. Y., 1973. 48 pages. Binding: Library, $3.75. Daphne D. C. Pochin Mould. IRELAND FROM THE AIR. New York: Arc0 Publishing Company, Inc., 1973. 112 pages. Cloth, $8.95. J. Lewis Robinson & Walter G. Hardwick. BRITISH COLUMBIA: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF GEOGRAPHICAL CHANGE, Canada. Talonbooks, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1973, 63 pages. Paper, no price. Pleva & Inch, eds. THE CANADIAN OXFORD SCHOOL ATLAS, 3rd edition. Oxford University Press, New York, N. Y., 1972. 166 pages. Cloth, $3.50. David Goodnough. THE COLONY OF NEW YORK. Franklin Watts, Inc., a subsidiary of Grolier Incorporated, New York, N. Y., 1973. 96 pages. Binding: Library, $3.75. Edna McGuire, Donald Yates, Madonna Yates. THE STORY OF ETHIOPIA. McCormick-Mathers Publishing Company, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio, 1971. 172 pages. Paper cover, no price. Prepared by Martha Murray Sumwalt. SURINAM in pictures. Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. New York, N. Y., 1971. Visual Geography Series. 64 pages. Paper, no price. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Beginning students of geography often have difficulty understanding contour and other isoline maps. If the contours can be seen in three dimensions, this concept of surface representation is grasped much more readily. The simplest way for an instructor to demonstrate the isoline concept is to draw stereopair contour images, which, when viewed through a stereoscope, show a three-dimensional surface. Crude, but effective stereocontour maps can be drawn by anyone, regardless of cartographic skill, by using the method outlined in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper explores the concept of relevancy in the context of an introductory physical geography course. The concern is with a relevant content and structure. Both are introduced through a problem-orientation. Current societal problems related to the physical environment are used to introduce students to conditions and processes involving environmental elements such as atmosphere, water, soil, vegetation, and topography. Because they are societal problems, the additional element, man, is included. The structure assumes a priori that the student has some prior knowledge of environmental problems. With a relatively high level of individual involvement, the student is asked to utilize this knowledge in learning about environmental processes and physical geographic concepts. Feedback from student to instructors is maximized through greater reliance on discussion groups, exercises, papers, and a problem-solving examination. In transmitting subject matter and environmental problems information, greater reliance is placed on readings and less on lectures. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

R. Warwidk Armstrong, Editor and Project Director. ATLAS OF HAWAII. The University Press of Hawaii, Department of Geography, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1973. 222 pages. Paper cover, $15.00. Bernadine Bailey. GREENLAND IN PICTURES. Visual Geography Series, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1973. 64 pages. Paperback, $1.25. Yi-Fu Tuan. TOPOPHILIA: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes and Values. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632, 260 pages. Cloth cover, $8.95, paper cover, $4.95. Merrill M. Stuart. MASTER'S THESES IN GEOGRAPHY: AMERICAN AND CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES. Geographic and Area Study Publications, Tualatin, Oregon, 1973. 275 pages, Library bound $11.00, Paper back $7.00. R. J. Johnston. SPATIAL STRUCTURES: Introducing the study of spatial systems in human geography. St. Martin's Press, New York, 7973. The Field of Geography. 137 pages. Cloth cover, $6.95. Charles ReVelle, Penelope ReVelle. SOURCEBOOK ON THE ENVIRONMENT: The Scientific Perspective. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Mass. 02107, 1974. 332 pages. Paper back, N.P. Raymond E. Crist, Charles M. Nissly. EAST FROM THE ANDES: Pioneer Settlements in the South American Heartland. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, Florida, 1974. 166 pages, Paper cover, $4.00. Edited with an introduction by Louis H. Masotti and Jeffrey K. Hadden. SUBURBIA IN TRANSITION. New Viewpoints -A Division of Franklin Watts, Inc., New York, 1974. 345 pages. Paper back, $4.95. Gordon Oosterman. THE PEOPLE: Three Indian Tribes of the Southwest. The National Union of Christian Schools, William 6. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1973. 117 pages. Paper, $2.45. Spencer D. Parker. GHANA. Bellhaven House, Scarborough 707, Ontario, Canada, 1973. 96 pages. Paper, $3.95. Chryssee MacCasler Perry Martin and Esmond Bradley Martin. QUEST FOR THE PAST: An Historical Guide to The Lamu Archipelago. Marketing and Publishing Ltd., 1973. 32 pages. Paper, N. P. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The major contention of this paper is that inter-urban interaction is a definite factor in the growth of metropolitan areas, A brief review of current models of metropolitan growth will reveal that most of them work under the assumption of growth in isolation, neglecting the interaction factor. It is proposed in this paper that the concept of urban corridors reflects this interaction, and can be applied to the study of urban growth. The development of this concept is reviewed and then applied to a particular study area to test its relationship to patterns of expansion. Geography teachers must concern themselves with such problems as explanation and interpretation of urban growth patterns in order to prepare present and future citizens for life in this urban age. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The purpose of this paper is to summarize an approach utilized by the author in the presentation of an historical geography course. The course revolved around the establishment of an interacting philosophical and methodological base which reflected a scientific point of view of the field of study. Hopefully, the brief synopsis presented in this paper will be of help to those individuals interested in the teaching of historical geography. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper is a response to the two-fold thesis of Bartz; namely, that (1) maps are not really important in our society today, and (2) educators say that they value maps and mapping, but the evidence of children's performance in using maps is contradictory. In exploring problems related to Bartz's contention, the author arrives at four tentative conclusions : 1. A child can and does learn many but not all of the map concepts and skills at an earlier age when taught them developmentally, systematically, functionally, and effectively. 2. Mere manipulation of materials does not constitute a concrete experience for a child. 3. Map-related concepts must be taught prior to, and continued concurrently with, map skills. 4. The commercially prepared map tends to appear near the highest level of abstract mapping and is therefore not necessarily the most effective means of map instruction for the elementary teacher. A most significant implication from the conclusions is the need to re-examine the preparation of the elementary teacher. If the focus of the education of a teacher moves in the direction outlined in this paper, Bartz's premise could be reversed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The paper suggests and illustrates several techniques useful for analysis of land form characteristics from topographic maps. Five maps representing distinctly-different types of terrain are analyzed numerically, and the results are presented in map form. The analysis is based on indices derived from values of contour lines, and the indices are selected according to the salient characteristics of the terrain in a given area. Stream eroded, glacial, aeolian and structurally controlled types of terrain are analyzed to illustrate the variety of approaches necessary for analysis of land form from topographic maps. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]