Discovering planet Earth : a guide to the world's terrain and the forces that made it

"The Earth is home to an . . . array of land- and seascapes, from icy polar tundra to . . . tropical rainforests, from . . . white-sand beaches to the . . . trenches at the bottom of the world's . . . oceans. [This book] brings to life these diverse environments and explains the different processes that have defined and shaped them--and continue to do so. Illustrated throughtout with . . . photographs and a range of diagrams and infographics to a...