geography

Hardcover. NY, Praeger Publishers, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Very good condition in slightly worn dust jacket. 214 pages, 52 maps & diagrams. A guide to Turkey that lays out the geography, as well as the historical, political and cultural history of the country. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 1991, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 254 pages. Red phono disc of Tuvan throat singing still attached. As a stamp-collecting boy always fascinated by remote places, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman was particularly taken by the diamond-shaped stamps from a place called Tannu Tuva deep within Outer Mongolia. He hoped, someday, to travel there. In 1977, Feynman and his sidekick - fellow drummer and geography enthusiast Ralph Leighton - set out to make arrangements to visit Tuva, doing noble and hilarious battle with Soviet red tape, befriending quite a few Tuvans, and discovering the wonders of Tuvan throat-singing. Their Byzantine attempts to reach Tannu Tuva would span a decade, interrupted by Feynman's appointment to the committee investigating the Challenger disaster, and his tragic struggle with the cancer that finally killed him. Tuva or Bust! chronicles the deepening friendship of two zany, brilliant strategists whose love of the absurd will delight and instruct. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Palgrave Macmillan, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 266 pages. This book focuses on the development of towns in France, taking into account military technology, physical geography, shifting regional networks tying urban communities together, and the emergence of new forms of public authority and civic life as embodied in the "wall," an image at once intensely physical and deeply symbolic. It traces the evolution of towns across much of what is today France from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century when the walls began to come down, opening up new, ultimately revolutionary possibilities for urban life. This long-term perspective on town fortifications--how they were built, the contests to control them, and how they shaped the lives of people both inside and outside them. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow and Company, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 208 pages, illustrated with 50 early photographs and sketches. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rubbing, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton and Co, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 416 pages, b&w diagrams and illustrations. Edge wear, small tears to price-clipped dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy. A complete discussion of the effects of wind and its changes on racing strategy --- by one of the world's most successful sailboat racers. Races are lost by a failure to understand and predict changes in wind. This book is the first and only one of its kind to deal with the character of the wind as it applies specifically to the racer. It shows how surface wind is affected by season, time of day, temperature disparities, clouds and geography. It supplies the meteorology needed to understand surface winds, and it shows how to predict the many kinds of wind shifts. Above all it shows how to take advantage of this special knowledge.