Earth's Landscape: An Encyclopedia of the World's Geographic Features

The publicity material for this encyclopedia, reviewed here in its e-book version, describes it as “unusual”. This is an apt word to describe an encyclopedia that is indeed somewhat odd, comprising a unique assemblage of facts on geographic “features” from across the globe. These “features”, again quoting the promotional blurb on the publisher’s Web site, are “continents and oceans; individual mountains, islands, caves and rivers; and ecological entities such as wildlife refuges and national parks”. The authors, both of whom are retired geography professors at American universities, are not specific as to the encyclopedia’s purpose. In their brief Preface (pp....