The book provides an engaging and comprehensive introduction to the major topics within physical geography. It focuses on understanding the inter-linkages between processes, places and environments and is fully illustrated to demonstrate how the physical environment works. The book includes studies of environmental change, looking at short term as well as longer term change, and evaluating aspects of global change. It focuses on landscape appreciation, and fosters a solid understanding of Earth and its physical geography. It contains many carefully arranged facts and statements in the various departments of physical geography, and legitimate deductions from them.