As he points out in his opening words, North America, in reality, affords more favourable conditions for the study of existing glaciers and the records of ancient ice-sheets than any other continent.

To these he gives a prominence which was not necessary or desirable for European students of geography, but which is no doubt essential for learners on the other side of the Atlantic.

Find out more about the continent of North America with this KS2 primary geography guide from BBC Bitesize.

In turn, many North American scholars were admirers and followers of his perspectives, practices, and publications. Although geography did not emerge as an institutionally based discipline in the ...

Definitions of the Appalachian region vary considerably. In this paper we develop a theoretically grounded and empirically based understanding of Appalachia by focusing on the social process of ...