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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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A series designed to model the new KS3 Programme of Study for Geography and support curriculum initiatives. It focuses on real places, real spaces and real enquiries, with topics relevant to young people. ... Read more

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Geography has always played a major role in world politics. In this study, Philip Kelly maps the geopolitics of South America, a continent where relative isolation from the power centers in North America and Eurasia and often forbidding internal terrain have given rise to a fascinating and unique geopolitical structure. Kelly uses the geographical concepts of "checkerboards" and "shatterbelts" to characterize much of South America's geopolitics and to explain why the continent has never been unified nor dominated by a single nation. This approach accounts for both historical relationships among South American countries and for such current situations as Brazil's inability to extend its authority across the continent from Atlantic to Pacific, its traditional competition with Argentina, its territorial expansion toward the continental heartlands, its encirclement by neighbors fearful of such expansion, and its recent rapprochement with Argentina. An important component of this book is the incorporation of the thinking and writing of South American geopolitical analysts, which leads to an interesting inventory of viewpoints on frontier conflicts, territorial expansion, industrial development, economic cooperation, and United States and European relations. Kelly's findings will be important reading for geographers, political scientists, and students and scholars of Latin American history. ... Read more

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Describes the geography, weather and climate, and plants and animals of South America, a continent of contrasts. ... Read more

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Provides information about the location, topography, climate, population, industry, language, and currency of the Central and South American countries. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (31)

Fascinating book
This is an amazing book for any one to read but if you spend time in the rain forest or tropics, or you are interested in envionmental issues you will be amazed.It gives you an understanding of how everything is dependent on everything else, and how one change in the environment can result in catastropic results.It's a good read, too.
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Fantastic!
I first read this book before I went on a research trip in the tropics. Teachers and students all love this book! It's a great primer before a trip, or a great inspiration to go in the first place. Smooth and easy language from knowledgeable authors that you don't have to be a science graduate to understand. I recommend this to anyone and everyone who ever thought about visiting tropical rain forest.

Decent book, a little underwhelming
We used this book for a course I taught in Costa Rica, essentially doing a chapter a day.It was informative for the class and work well in that capacity, but it isn't what I would call an especially good or deep read.It's interesting, but not transformative, I suppose.

Tropical Nature: An Easy and Fun Read for the Science 101 Student
I recently was required to read a book not specifically assigned by our professor but of something that sparks our interest and write a review on that book.I chose this book and found it to be a great choice.The class that this assignment was for was Physical Geography, which is a 100 level class.As a rookie in this area, I found my choice to be very informative and easy to understand.The authors clearly do a great job of writing this book for people of all degrees of knowledge in this area.They are able to mix some humor into the book that adds life to it rather than the boring, dry, text books we are all used to reading.For someone who hasn't read this book yet, you will find out what I mean by humor early on in the book when the author talks about dung scarab beetles.The authors cover a large portion of material in a laid back way that makes this read enjoyable even for financial economics majors who are required to take a lab class (like myself).It also provides you with enough knowledge and facts where one could keep a conversation going with a Bio major and not sound like an idiot. Overall a great read.

A must read
If you are visiting the rain forest, you absolutely must read this books first! It is well written and has a very broad scope.A good starting place to guide your own experiments and explorations in this wonderful part of the world. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This book traces the development of settlements and economic systems, as well as provide up-to-date information and interpretation of the contemporary problems of South America.

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Describes the history, customs, people, flora, and fauna of the countries of South America. ... Read more