Description
Book SynopsisA fascinating overview of the lands and peoples of the United States and Canada, both past and present. Based on decades of research and written in clear, concise prose by one of the foremost geographers in North America, John C. Hudson's Across This Land is a comprehensive regional geography of the North American continent. Dividing the terrain into ten regions, which are then subdivided into twenty-seven smaller areas, Hudson's brisk narrative reveals the dynamic processes of each area's distinctive place-specific characteristics. Focusing on how human activities have shaped and have been shaped by the natural environment, Hudson considers physical, political, and historical geography. He also highlights related topics, including resource exploitation, economic development, and population change. Praised in its first edition as a readable and reliable interpretation of United States and Canadian geography, the revised Across This Land retains these strengths while adding substantia
Table of ContentsList of Maps
Preface
References
PART I. Atlantic Canada and Quebec
Chapter 1. Newfoundland and Labrador
Chapter 2. Quebec
Chapter 3. The Maritimes
PART II. The Northeast
Chapter 4. New England
Chapter 5. New York and Ontario
Chapter 6. The Middle Atlantic
PART III. The Upland South
Chapter 7. The Southern Appalachians
Chapter 8. The Interior Low Plateaus
Chapter 9. The Ozarks and the Ouachitas
PART IV. The Lowland South
Chapter 10. The Southeastern Piedmont and the Coastal Plain
Chapter 11. The Florida Peninsula
Chapter 12. The Gulf Coastal Plain and the Alluvial Mississippi Valley
PART V. The Middle West
Chapter 13. The Corn Belt
Chapter 14. The Lower Great Lakes
PART VI. The Central Plains
Chapter 15. Prairie Wheat Lands
Chapter 16. Texas and the Southern Plains
PART VII. The Western Plains and the Rocky Mountains
Chapter 17. The Southern Rocky Mountains and the High Plains
Chapter 18. The Missouri Plateau
PART VIII. The Intermountain West
Chapter 19. The Northern Rocky Mountains and the Columbia–Snake Plateau
Chapter 20. The Great Basin
Chapter 21. The Colorado Plateau and the Desert Southwest
PART IX. The North
Chapter 22. The Upper Great Lakes
Chapter 23. The Canadian Shield
Chapter 24. The Far North
PART X. The Pacific Realm
Chapter 25. The Pacific Northwest
Chapter 26. California
Chapter 27. Hawaii
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