Explore the changing global environment with real-world examples and mobile field trips. Continuing Tom L. McKnight's well-known thematic focus on landscape appreciation, Darrel Hess offers a broad survey of all of the physical processes and spatial patterns that create Earth's physical landscape.  McKnight’s Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation  provides a clear writing style, superior art program, and abundant pedagogy to appeal to a wide variety of readers.

The 12th Edition offers a truly meaningful integration of visualization, technology, and the latest applied science, providing essential opportunities to teach and engage readers in these processes and patterns. Topics that are tied to readers' real-world concerns such as global environmental change, along with new videos, photography, online lab resources, and updated interactive tools, make it the most effective learning program for physical geography.