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Summary: Interesting and Entertaining
Review: Mr. Davis has done a top-notch job of disseminating some very useful and needful information. Don't let the title fool you - more than just "geography" is covered here. You'll learn history, ecology, astronomy, and more. The only caveat, and it's not a huge one, is that he occasionally gets a bit preachy, especially about the environment and his liberal attitude comes through loud and clear. Overall, a good read and well worth the price.
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Summary: Interesting and Entertaining
Review: Mr. Davis has done a top-notch job of disseminating some very useful and needful information. Don't let the title fool you - more than just "geography" is covered here. You'll learn history, ecology, astronomy, and more. The only caveat, and it's not a huge one, is that he occasionally gets a bit preachy, especially about the environment and his liberal attitude comes through loud and clear. Overall, a good read and well worth the price.
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Summary: Kenneth Davis obvious error.
Review: On page 175 under the subcaption, "Where Does All the Water Go at Low Tide?" Mr. Davis states "Since it takes the moon a little more than a day to orbit the Earth, there are two cycles of tides in roughly every twenty-five hours." Anyone who knows the lunar month knows that it takes the moon roughly 29 1/2 days to orbit the earth. The variation of the tides is caused by the Earth rotating on its axis, and not by the orbiting of the moon. The book is entertaining overall, but this is a gross error!
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Summary: a great read
Review: One of the more memorable times in my school life was in college when a professor actually made history fun to learn. I learned more in that class than I think I did in all the rest of my history classes throughout my life. Mr. Davis is able to do the same with geography in this wonderful book. I recommend this to anyone wishing to learn more about the world we live in.
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Summary: Authour does not know much about geography
Review: Superficial, trendy, politically correct, and shallow.Presents many theories and personal opinions as fact. Misrepresents views of the scientific community regarding the issue of global warming. For a book about geography, contains far fewer maps than would be expected.
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Summary: You don't? Well, you can....
Review: Think geography is just where things go on a map? Read this book and let Kenneth C. Davis disabuse you of such ideas. Napoleon, volcanoes, Vikings, and killer meteorites are only a few of the topics Davis gives a solid going over. One minor complaint: the amount of finger-wagging at the United States and Europe, as compard to that directed at everyone else in the world, is a bit excessive. But, overall, Davis is reasonably fair.
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Summary: Wonderfully written
Review: This book gave me a reinfocement and expounded upon things that I did know and taught me several new things too!
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Summary: The joke's on you, Kenneth Davis
Review: This book was written in 1992, so one can forgive Kenneth Davis a few inaccuracies - geography just doesn't stay the same and scientists learn new things about the Earth all the time. What I can't forgive, however, is when an author who is supposedly trying to teach you something injects his partisan politics into the book. Davis did this in Don't Know Much About History by taking an undeserved shot at Reagan. And he takes a shot at Bush (Daddy-O, not Jr, obviously) in Don't Know Much About Geography. Davis is trying to pretend that Bush made the world situation worse by liberating Kuwait during the Gulf War. I wonder if he feels like a fool having those words in print, given what we know now about Saddam Hussein? He practically screams "No blood for oil!" on pg. 240. It's embarrassing. So, considering Davis is prone to injecting his own political interpretations in his writing, I wonder how much credence I can give anything he writes? That said, if you truly don't know much about geography, this is a decent start. But read with a grain of salt and know where Davis is coming from when he writes about geopolitical "history".
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Summary: Interesting & Informative
Review: Unlike the content of the book on American History, the content of this book is universal. The book provides information on geographic origins of cyclone, typhoon & Hurricane plus scores of topics not found in school books. However, the castigation of his geography school teacher is not in good spirits. Some of the issues may be questionable but nevertheless, this book woulld fit a casual reading.
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