Our Earth and Its Story: a Popular Treatise on Physical Geography. Edited by R. Brown. with ... Coloured Plates and Maps, Etc.

Publisher Marketing: Title: Our Earth and its Story: a popular treatise on physical geography. Edited by R. Brown. With ... coloured plates and maps, etc. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The GEOGRAPHY & TOPOGRAPHY collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. Offering some insights into the study and mapping of the natural world, this collection includes texts on Babylon, the geographies of China, and the medieval Islamic world. Also included are regional geographies and volumes on environmental determinism, topographical analyses of England, China, ancient Jerusalem, and significant tracts of North America. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Brown, Robert; 1899. 8 . 10006.ff.8. Contributor Bio:  Brown, Robert Petr Zima serves on the faculties of three Canadian institutions?and is the coauthor of several works in financial mathematics and operations research. Robert L. Brown, F. S. A., F. C. I. A., A. C. A. S. (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada), is a professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada. He is author of three books and coauthor of a recent textbook in the mathematics of finance.