This book is for everyone-everyone , that is, who is interested int he world he lives in, in the features and phenomena which are the substance of geography . It describes and explains such commonly met terms as the Trough of Low Pressure ( from a weather forecast) , a Mackerel Sky, a Tornado, the Spring Tides, and hundreds of others. But there are also sections on such stranger phenomena s the Willy-willy of Australia, the Doctor of West Africa, the Plum Rains of Japan, the Volcanic Bomb, the Anti-Trades, the Bad Lands, and the celestial Equator.
This book is for everyone-everyone , that is, who is interested int he world he lives in, in the features and phenomena which are the substance of geography . It describes and explains such commonly met terms as the Trough of Low Pressure ( from a weather forecast) , a Mackerel Sky, a Tornado, the Spring Tides, and hundreds of others. But there are also sections on such stranger phenomena s the Willy-willy of Australia, the Doctor of West Africa, the Plum Rains of Japan, the Volcanic Bomb, the Anti-Trades, the Bad Lands, and the celestial Equator.