The book is about what may be called human geography. This is an extension and comprehensive explanation of the foundations by Professor Frederick Ratzel about the physical factors and evolution of human race, culture and society. This book illustrates the operation of geographic factors in history, classes and types of geographic influences, society and state's relation to the land with People Movements in their geographical significance.
The writer's own method of research has been to compare typical peoples of all races and all stages of cultural development, living under similar geographic conditions. If these peoples of different ethnic stocks but similar environments manifested similar or related social, economic or historical development, it was reasonable to infer that such similarities were due to environment and not to race. Following chapters underline the importance of locations in geographical studies, geographical area and its relation to life, geographical boundaries.
Water has been a deciding element in geographical metamorphosis as also in giving birth to human civilizations and cultures; so final chapters are centered around oceanic coasts and peoples, oceans and enclosed seas and man's relation to the waters around him.
The book is unique and useful for the students of geography as well as anthropology and enlightens the reader about the interesting facts of live chemistry between the earth, its environment and the people who inhabit it.
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