What is Geography?

What is Geography? Geography is crucial for understanding the way the world works. This book offers readers a short and highly accessible account of the ideas and concepts constituting geography. Drawing out the key themes that define the subject, What is Geography? demonstrates how and why these themes have arisen and why they are of fundamental importance.

Including discussion of both the human and the natural realms, the book introduces geography's key concerns - from environmental change to urbanisation - as well as geography's key methods and the history of the discipline.

Introductory but not simplistic, What is Geography? provides readers with little or no prior experience of studying geography an understanding of the history and nature of the discipline. It introduces the main themes, practices and institutions within the field. An ideal transitory text for students entering undergraduate courses, the book will also be of interest to all those intrigued by the 'geographical imagination'.

About the Author:
Alastair Bonnett is Professor of Social Geography at the University of Newcastle