Fundamentals
of Physical Geography is a perpetual work
in progress. The pages that you can currently
view are the result of many years of work.
In the spring of 1996, I began creating a variety
of web pages as learning supplements for two
introductory Physical Geography courses I teach
at Okanagan
University College. From the fall of
1996 to spring of 1997, I repackaged these
materials into online lecture notes for Distance
Education versions of Geography
111 and 121.
During 1997 and 1998, I made numerous revisions
and additions to the online notes. I began
working on the Fundamentals
of Physical Geography online textbook
in January of 1999. At the end of July 1999,
the Fundamentals of
Physical Geography website was officially
put online.
Fundamentals
of Physical Geography (2nd
Edition)
contains over three hundred pages of information
and more than four hundred 2-D illustrations,
photographs, and animated graphics. Besides
having the traditional text and 2-D graphics,
this information source also has a number of
animated graphics, an interactive glossary
of terms, study guide pages for each chapter,
and a search engine to find information on
the Fundamentals
of Physical Geography website. The
current purpose of this work is to teach the
connected world about Physical Geography.
I would like to thank all those individuals
who contacted me about typos and other errors in
my webpages. A special thanks goes out to Allen
Hutchinson for his diligence in providing me with
numerous suggestions on how to improve the readability
of this work.
