Reviews of books

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHYTectonics and Landforms. By C. D. Oilier. 24.5 × 19, 324 pp., 218 figures, tables, bibliography, index. Longmans, Harlow, 1981. £9.95.Soil Erosion. Ed. M. J. Kirby and R. P. C. Morgan. 23.5 × 15.5, 312 pp, numerous figures. John Wiley, Chichester.The Effect of Recreation on Freshwater Lochs and Reservoirs in Scotland. By Joy Tivy. 202 pp., 44 figures, 74 tables. Countryside Commission for Scotland, 1980. £15 (plus 93p p. & p.).URBAN GEOGRAPHYUrban Geography. By George Gordon and William Dick. 20 × 25, 128 pp., numerous figures and illustrations, bibliography and index. Holmes McDougall, Edinburgh, 1981. £2.95.CARTOGRAPHYAlexander Lindsay A Rutter of the Scottish Seas circa 1540. National Maritime Monograph No. 44. Edited by I. H. Adams and G. Fortune. 29.5 × 21, 64 pp. National Maritime Museum, London, 1980. £5.80.Understanding Maps. By Alan Hodgkiss. 28 × 22, 209 pp., 126 illustrations, bibliography, index. Dawson, Folkestone, 1981. £15.00.TRAVELHamish's Groats End Walk. By Hamish Brown. 23.5 × 16, 301 pp., illustrations, sketch maps, bibliography. Gollancz, London, 1981. £9.95.EDUCATIONALMGeography of Britain: Perspectives and Problems. By David Kirby and Harry Robinson. 24.5 × 19, 320 pp. University Tutorial Press, Slough, 1981. £4.85.Brasil: A Concise Thematic Geography. By Philip Vaughan-Williams. 26 × 20, 166 pp. University Tutorial Press, Slough, 1981. £3.50.Fundamental Geography of the British Isles. By W. G. Moore. 24.6 × 19.8, 208 pp, maps, photographs and diagrams. Hulton, Amersham, 1981. £2.95.Practical Foundations of Physical Geography. By B. J. Knapp. 27.5 × 22.0, 138 pp., two-colour printing, black and white and stereo-pair photographs and diagrams. George Allen & Unwin, 1981. £5.95.