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Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1919. Cloth. Very Good. New Edition", 1919. Very Good. 8vo., 415 pp., with black & white illustrations including folding map at rear. Bound in publishers green cloth. Rubbing at top and base of spine, tips rubbed, occasional markings inside (not many, maybe 6-8). Ellsworth Huntington was a geographer, a professor of Geology-Geography at Yale University, and an author. Huntington was a proponent of the controversial theory that emphasized the dominant influence of climate and eugenics on the character of civilizations. - Wiki.

New York United States: KU Libraries the University of Kansas Houghton Mifflin Company , 2015. Hardback The pulse of Asia, a journey in Central Asia illustrating the geographic basis of history Excerpt from The Pulse of Asia: A Journey in Central Asia Illustrating, the Geographic Basis of History This book is primarily the record of a journey of exploration in a remote and unique region - the heart of Asia. It is more than that, however, for scattered through the narrative there runs a description of the physical features of the great central basin of Asia and a discussion of their effect upon the life and habits of two contrasted types of people. One type lives in the mountains around the basin. It is nomadic and obtains its support chiefly from sheep, horses, and cattle, and its life is full of movement and excitement. The other type lives in the oases of the basin itself amid vast desert wastes of sand, gravel, clay, and salt. Its life is hemmed in by the narrow circle of the irrigated land and of… Read More

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1907. Book. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. Book has modest cover wear, owners signature date 1907..

Boston 1907 1st Houghton. Hardcover. Large Octavo, 415pp., photo illustrations, large color folding map, cloth. Top edge gilt. Owner signed (Blanche D. Woodward). VG plus. Excellent condition. .

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Boston USA: Houghton Mifflin, 1919. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 683 8vo. A revised edition, with a new Introduction, on Pulsatory Climatic Changes, dated 1919, (pp vii to xxi), then original Preface (xxiii to xxv), List of References (xxvii to xxix). With many illustrations, the last being a fold-out coloured map. Main text 388 pages including Appendix, plus an Index. Condition notes: Boards bumped and rubbed, some light spotting to end papers and title page, illustrations in good condition, map clean, sound and bright.