VAN LOON'S GEOGRAPHY

This is "a new geography that will be of some use. Put all the mountains and the cities and the oceans on your maps and then tell us only about the people who live in those places and why they are there and where they came from and what they are doing--a sort of human interest story applied to geography."

《房龙地理》房龙对于世界地理的解读，不仅限于讨论地球的自然特征，他没有罗列枯燥的数字，没有堆砌深奥的名词，而是把人作为重点，来探究人的生存命运，试图寻找到人类幸福的共通之路。房龙用文学手法赋予知识以灵性，把自然地理的规律和人文的千姿百态展现在读者面前。