Landscape - the external surface of the earth beneath the a… - Richard Hartshorne

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Landscape - the external surface of the earth beneath the atmosphere... is merely an outward manifestation of most of the factors at work in the area.

Richard Hartshorne

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Richard Hartshorne (December 12, 1899 – November 5, 1992) was a prominent American geographer, and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who specialized in economic and political geography and the philosophy of geography. He is known in particular for his methodological work The Nature of Geography, published in 1939.

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Landscape - the external surface of the earth beneath the atmosphere... is merely an outward manifestation of most of the factors at work in the area. - Richard Hartshorne

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