---4- tz,' DOCUMENT RESUME ED 107 591 SO 008 430 AUTHOR Church, Martha, Ed.; And Others TITLE A Basic Geographical Library: A Selected and Annotated Book List for American Colleges. Publication No. 2. INSTITUTION Association of American Geographers, Washington, D.C. Commission on College Geography. SPONS AGENCY National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. PUB DATE 66 NOTE 164p. EDRS PRICE MF-$0.76 HC-$8.24 PLUS POSTAGE DESCRIPTORS *Annotated Bibliographies; Bibliographies; Booklists; College Instruction; Geographic Regions; *Geography; *Geography Instruction; Higher Education; *Library Guides; Library Material Selection; Social Sciences; Thematic Approach ABSTRACT A standard list of books of special excellence or ofl, particular value to the student of geography is provided. The primary purpose of this annotated bibliography is to offer guidance to librarians in achieving reasonably adequate coverage of the geographic literature in undergraduate colleges in the United States, as well as to aid instructors and researchers in the geographyfield. The list is limited to books and serials. Contents of the volume have been arranged into four principal sections:(1) general works and aids,(2) geographical methods,(3) thematic geography, and (4) regional geography. Within each major section, specific topics are further categorized. Listings are alphabetical by author within the individual categories, including publishers, date, page numbers, price and the library of Congress numbers.(Author/JR) rl COMMISSION ON COLLEGE GEOGRAPHY 0- PUBLICATION No. 2 U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION & WELFARE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPRO C) DUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIGIN ATING IT POINTS OF VIEW OR OPINIONS STATED 00 NOT NECESSARILY REPRE SENT OFFICIAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION POSITION OR POLICY 1_0 PF fffAiy, ION ToPf PRODUCETHIS COPY ffrL,N TED MATERIAL HA', BE FU GRANTED BY. 64). trwMk. -?, ' 11 TOE flic AND OfiC,ANIZA DONS OPERA TING UNDER AGREEMENTS WITH THE NATIONAL IN STITUEF OF EDUCATION;LIMITER ;4-PRO TON OUTSIDE THE ERIC SYSTEM RE OuiffESPE MANSION Of ME rOPYHIGIIT OWNER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS Washington, D. C. 20036 1966 Supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS Commission on College Geography Publications No. 1Geography in Undergraduate Liberal Education, 1965 No. 2A Basic Geographical LibraryA Selected and Annotated Book List for American Colleges, 1966 BEST COPYAVAIIABLE 00003 r LC1 A BASIC GEOGRAPHICALLIBRARY A SELECTED ANDANNOTATED BOOK LIST r---1 FOR AMERICAN COLLEGES Colninled and Editedby MARTEIA CHURCH Wilson College Chambersburg, Pennsylvania ROBERT HUKE Dartmouth College Haover. New Hampshire WILBUR 7.1;LINSKY Pennsylvania State University Uf»lersity Park, Pennsylvania Copyright 1966 by the ASSOCIATION OF AMERICANGEOGRAPHERS Commission on College Geography Washington. a C 20036 PUBLICATION No. 2 Library of ( ongress Catalog CardNumber 66.19595 Supported by a grant from the National ScienceFoundation 00004 so INTRODUCTION "A Basic Geographical Library" attempts toprovide a standard list of moderate length of the literature on all aspects of ahighly dnerse subject. These are the books that, according to the best available opinion, ireof special excellence or of particular value to the student of geography. As the subtitleindicates, the primary purpose of this endeavor is to offer guidance to librarians in achievingreasonably adequate coverage of the geographic literature in undergraduatecolleges in the United Statesand in public and special libraries as well. We have tried tooffer a selection of works that will reveal to the American college student aseffectively as possible the variety, range, richness, and deep fascination of what is both the oldestand youngest of stiences.It is also hoped that this volumethe first such collection ofgeographic titleswill prove useful to scholars at all levels of attaininent, outside as well aswithin the field of geography, for both instructional and research purposes. Ms work was first suggested by the editors atthe December, 1963 meeting of the Association of American Geographers' Commission onCollege Geography (then called the Committee on Geography in Liberal Education),and the ilea was accepted by the group as one of the ways in which thegeographic profession might contribute significantly to the cause of American liberal education.Subsequently, the editors collected the names of various colleagues generallyrecognized as having special competence in one or more branches of the field, and these persons werethen solicited for suggestions as to what should be listedand excludedin theirspecified areasAll told, more than 400 geog- raphers, including an important minority outsideNorth America, were approached. Their generous cooperation has made thispublication possible.The editors regret that our pledge of anonymity, without which afull, frank evaluation of the literature would have been awkward, makes it impossible toacknowledge each of our collaborators. As the editing of the volume proceeded, preliminarysections were circulated among a limited refinementDuring the final stages of work, number of critics for further evaluation ar.d Harris, the entire manuscript was examinedcritically by John K. Wright and Chauncy D, veritably the two deans of American geographicbibliography. The editors hasten to note, however, that the final responsibility for theformat of this work and for its contents and the blame for defects that come tolight after publicationis theirs rather than that It is a pleasant duty to report that this of any of their collaborators, named orunnamed has been a truly cooperative venture for all threeeditors, with the fullest possible sharing of duties and responsibilities. understand precisely what sorts of ma- it is important for the user of this volume to We terials are included or excluded, andalso how they have tren arranged and cited. have limited our choices to books and serials, i.e.discrete, bound publications issued in Ther by excluded are all articles, individualchapters, more or less normal fashion. Similarly, although reprints, fugitive materials, and theIlk!110 matter how meritorious listed here,n, individual wallmaps and sheet atlases are considered to be books ant, are partand were maps are omitted. Only those itemsthat had been published at least in available for inspection by July, 1965 wereconsidered. No 'forthcoming' volume, how- ever tantalizing, has been included. list is the undergraduate student population, Since the primary audience for this since this narrowly specialized and highlyadvanced works have been excluded. And has been given to English-language publications audience is an American one, preferenceforeign-language works. However, it was deemed proper and to English translations of German, Rus- to include important books inother standard scientific languagesFrench, equivalent works in English are not available.A num- sian, Spanish, and Italianwhere libraries have ber of basic and indispensablereferences likely to appear in almost all Specifically, this category includes suchItems as encyclopedias, dic- been omitted like tionaries, almanacs, and a great varietyof governmental publications. We should particular set of works of great value to thegeographer that to emphasize, however, one statistical yearbooks had to be eliminated in order to conservespace, namely nation these is given in Item #79. and handbooks.A citation for a complete listing of ni 0000s the great majoriti, of t,x,ks sited1,1 this list can be described as "technical," in the extended sense of this term Initial's, the editors planned to include a judiciousselection of travel books act regional novels, but becauseof the large element of subjective judg- ment involved in choosing such items, this ideawas abandoned with regret. Only those very few travel accounts that are universally. ccepted as important contributions to geographic knowledge have been included, anda s ogle nosel that should produce little dissentGeorge R Stewart's "Storm In general, we have tended to selectrecent worksthose still available front pub- lishers or recently out of print. kSSe havenot tried to state what is or is not out-of-print, since such information becomes obsolescent so quickly.)Despite this general policy, a number of older "classics" have been cited,including some that are difficult to find the used-book market. on Ibis has been done in the hope that theirreissue might be stimu- lated thereby and also with the knowledgethat modern techniques of duplicating printed materials make it feasible for librariesto procure facsimiles. l'he selected books ire chiefly those whichhave been written by or for geographers. Perhaps the most difficult setof editorial decisions had to do with peripheral to the field of geography items considered Aside from individual works of outstandingmerit, the general policy has been to be ratherconservative in those sectors enjoying a rich geogr iphic literature mid to be relatively liberal where are meager in number strictly geographic publications This explains. for example, the dominance ofnon-geographical works iii 'Section:, entitled "Soils" and "Photogrammetryand Air Photo Interpretation. the s tine principle of a sliding scale of acceptabilityhas been Invoked in trying to ap- proach a quanta itive balance among various subjec.areas. Where the geographical literature is strongly developed, as, for example,in works on the European and