Author: W. G. Kendrew

Publisher:

Published: 2016-06-26

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 9781332771844

Excerpt from The Climates of the Continents This book aims at filling a gap in the sources available for the study of the geography of the Earth. For some time there has been no lack of treatises on meteorology excellent works exist also on the general principles of climatology, describing the features of the main types of climate but there is no adequate description of the actual climates of the countries of the Earth, considered regionally, available in English. It is necessary to refer to foreign sources, most of them German, for more informa tion than the short sketches contained in general works on geography. Only for a few regions are there detailed accounts in English. A work of this kind must be essentially a compilation from such materials as statistics, more or less adequate, maps showing certain factors of climate, and regional descriptions; the result is largely dependent on the nature of the original sources. A glance at the following pages will show that no uniformity of treatment has been achieved or even attempted. The principle followed has been to present the main features of the climate of each region considered especially in relation to the greater units of the globe. It is' clearly impossible to give any detailed local descriptions in a book of this scope. But it is hoped that the general account may constitute a framework into which detailed local descriptions may be intelligently fitted, a convenient skeleton to carry the details necessary for the special purposes of the meteorologist, the botanist, the zoologist, and the geographer. As it seemed desirable to make each chapter as far as possible complete in itself, repetition has been in some places inevitable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.