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Reader's Digest Library of Modern Knowledge Vol 3 - The Everyday World (1978 1st Edition)
''Man's physical world has evolved over 4,600 million years.
It is a world of contrasts, with stark polar wastes and scorched deserts, snow-capped mountains and dense, luxuriant lowland forests.
How man uses the different regions to make a living varies greatly.
Large tracts are virtually useless and are empty.
The fertile river valleys of the tropics have teeming populations of peasant farmers, and workers crowd in the great industrial areas.
During the 20th century many of the natural checks on population increase, such as plague, have disappeared and the world's population is increasing by more than 70 million each year.''
The World Today
22 Regions of the Earth
23 Nations and Places
Ready Reference
24 Facts and Figures
25 Index
This book is a 1st Edition 1978 and part of a highly collectable set of three encyclopedias.
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