WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY CONCEPTS
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WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY CONCEPTS
THIRD EDITION
LYDIA MIHELIČ PULSIPHER
Geography Professor Emeritus, University of Tennessee
ALEX A. PULSIPHER
Geographer and Independent Scholar
with the assistance of
CONRAD “MAC” GOODWIN
Anthropologist/Archaeologist and Independent Scholar
W.H. Freeman and Company
A Macmillan Education Company New York
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To Allan G. Pulsipher, who has been an excellent father and grandfather.
And to ideas that are ahead of their time. May we learn to catch up.
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