Across This Land: A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada » (1st Edition)

John C. Hudson is a professor of geography and director of the Program in Environmental Sciences at Northwestern University and the first recipient of the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize for popular books in American human geography, awarded by the Association of American Geographers.

Acknowledging that he has limited this text to the portions of North America he knows best (thus neglecting Mexico), Hudson (geography, Nortwestern U.) divides the geography of Canada and the United States into six regions and 12 subregions and proceeds to describe the human and physical geographies of the chosen areas. Historical developments and political and economic realities are woven into the text. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

John Fraser Hart

This book is a genuine tour de force. Light years ahead of existing textbooks, Across This Land is a true regional geography that will benefit anyone who reads it.

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PART I: Atlantic Canada and Quebec
Chapter 1: Newfoundland and Labrador
Chapter 2: Quebec
Chapter 3: Maritimes

PART II: The Northeast
Chapter 4: New England
Chapter 5: New York and Ontario
Chapter 6: The Middle Atlantic

PART III: The Upland South
Chapter 7: The Southern Appalachians
Chapter 8: The Interior Low Plateaus
Chapter 9: The Ozarks and the Ouachitas

PART IV: The Lowland South
Chapter 10: The Southeastern Piedmont and the Coastal Plain
Chapter 11: The Florida Peninsula
Chapter 12: The Gulf Coastal Plain and the Alluvial

PART V: The Middle West
Chapter 13: The Corn Belt
Chapter 14: The Lower Great Lakes

PART VI: Prairies and Plains
Chapter 15: Texas and the Southern Plains
Chapter 16: The Prairie Wheat Lands

PART VII: The Western Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains
Chapter 17: The Southern Rocky Mountains and the High Plains
Chapter 18: The Missouri Plateau

PART VIII: The Intermountain West
Chapter 19: The Northern Rocky Mountains and the Columbia-Snake Plateau
Chapter 20: The Great Basin
Chapter 21: The Colorado Plateau and the Desert Southwest

PART IX: The North
Chapter 22: The Upper Great Lake
Chapter 23: The Canadian Shield
Chapter 24: The Far North

PART X: The Pacific Realm
Chapter 25: The Pacific Northwest
Chapter 26: California
Chapter 27: Hawaii