‘From a geographical point of view, the world becomes to us the common home of our race, the theater, not of the operations of Nature in the most unrestricted sense, but the arena for the development of human life and history.’
Written for the general audience, this book is a crystallisation of Ritter’s methods of studying geography. This work is perfectly accessible to the general audience and contains both the practical aspects of geography and also Ritter’s philosophical opinions on the subject. The geographical features of various regions of the world are comprehensively introduced in this book.
Carl Ritter was a German geographer who is considered to be one of the founders of modern geography.