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Page v
... climate and a few of the more important diseases . Little information on this subject is readily accessible to the general reader . The life of man in the tropics , the temperate zones , and the polar zones is considered in Chapters ...
... climate and a few of the more important diseases . Little information on this subject is readily accessible to the general reader . The life of man in the tropics , the temperate zones , and the polar zones is considered in Chapters ...
Page vii
... Polar Zones and on Changes of Climate , in order that these subjects may be more accurately presented in the light of recent investigations . A few other changes have also been made , and all errors which occurred in the first edition ...
... Polar Zones and on Changes of Climate , in order that these subjects may be more accurately presented in the light of recent investigations . A few other changes have also been made , and all errors which occurred in the first edition ...
Page x
... climates - North tem- perate zone : Western coasts - Interiors - Eastern coasts - Mountain climates . CHAPTER VI . PAGE 76 108 • THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ZONES . III . THE POLAR ZONES : • • General relation to man , animals , and ...
... climates - North tem- perate zone : Western coasts - Interiors - Eastern coasts - Mountain climates . CHAPTER VI . PAGE 76 108 • THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ZONES . III . THE POLAR ZONES : • • General relation to man , animals , and ...
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... Polar zones : general - Scurvy - Climate and health : general conclusion . CHAPTER VIII . THE LIFE OF MAN IN THE TROPICS Climate and man : general - Some old views re- garding the effects of climate on man - Factors in the problem other ...
... Polar zones : general - Scurvy - Climate and health : general conclusion . CHAPTER VIII . THE LIFE OF MAN IN THE TROPICS Climate and man : general - Some old views re- garding the effects of climate on man - Factors in the problem other ...
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... POLAR ZONES General : a minimum of life - Culture - Subdivisions of the Arctic zone- -Characteristics of the tundra- The reindeer - Population and occupations - Dwell- ings - Food and clothing - Iceland - The polar ice cap : the Eskimo ...
... POLAR ZONES General : a minimum of life - Culture - Subdivisions of the Arctic zone- -Characteristics of the tundra- The reindeer - Population and occupations - Dwell- ings - Food and clothing - Iceland - The polar ice cap : the Eskimo ...
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Africa altitude ANNUAL MARCH Antarctic anticyclonic Arctic Arctic circle Asia chiefly civilisation climatology cloudiness cold colder continental climate continents cool crops curve cyclonic damp decrease deserts disease distribution districts diurnal drier dry season earth's surface east eastern coasts effect equator equatorial Europe favourable forests Greenland heat higher latitudes humidity important increasing India insolation irrigation islands isotherm land latitude circle less lowlands malaria margins maxima maximum mean annual mean temperature Meteorology migration monsoon months mountain climates natives natural North America north polar northern oceans perature period plateaus polar climate polar zones pole population pressure prevailing Province rainfall rainy season regions result savannas sea-level Siberia snow southern hemisphere steppes storms sub-tropical sub-tropical belts summer sunspot temperature tion trade wind trees tropics tude tundra usually vegetation warm warmer weather west coast westerlies western yellow fever
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Page 273 - ... to the vigorous employment of all his faculties. A more economical Nature yields nothing, except to the sweat of his brow; every gift on her part is a recompense for effort on his.