West of the Pacific

New York ; London: C. Scribner's Sons, 1925. First Edition with Scribner's emblem to copyright page. t. Fine(-) copy with a few small smudges of edges; lacking jacket. Remarkably crisp and tight.. Quarto in polished dark green cloth with gilt titles; xv, 453 pages: illustrations, frontispiece, plates; 23 cm; ndex; bibliographical references and index. "Ellsworth Huntington (1876 - 1947) was a professor of geography at Yale University during the early 20th century, known for his studies on environmental determinism/climatic determinism, economic growth, and economic geography. He served as president of the Ecological Society of America in 1917, the Association of American Geographers in 1923 and president of the board of directors of the American Eugenics Society from 1934 to 1938. He taught at Euphrates College, Turkey (1897-1901); accompanied the Pumpelly (1903) and Barrett (1905-1906) expeditions to central Asia; and wrote of his Asian experiences in Explorations in Turkestan (1905) and The Pulse of Asia (1907). He taught geography at Yale (1907-1915) and from 1917 was a research associate there, devoting his time chiefly to climatic and anthropogeographic studies. He was the 1916 recipient of the Elisha Kent Kane Gold Medal from the Geographical Society of Philadelphia. In 1909, Huntington led the Yale Expedition to Palestine. It was his mission to determine "step by step the process by which geologic structure, topographic form, and the present and past nature of the climate have shaped man's progress, moulded his history; and thus played an incalculable part in the development of a system of thought which could scarcely have arisen under any other physical circumstances."-Wikipedia ¶ Japan -- Description and travel. China -- Description and travel. Java (Indonesia) -- Description and travel. Australia -- Description and travel. Japon -- Descriptions et voyages. Chine -- Descriptions et voyages. Java (Indonésie) -- Descriptions et voyages. Australie -- Descriptions et voyages. Australia China Indonesia -- Java Japan Japan -- Description and travel China -- Description and travel Java (Indonesia) -- Description and travel Australia -- Description and travel Huntington, Ellsworth, 1876-1947.