Volume 7, Number 9 · December 1, 1966
Passionate History
By Salvador de Madariaga
The Early Spanish Main
by Carl Ortwin Sauer
University of California, 306 pp., $7.50
Geography is a science of space; history is an art of time. If a good geographer happens to be a good historian, he'd better thank nature for the bounty. It happens now and then. Normally, however, it does not. We need not wonder then if this book turns out to be the work of a good geographer who is a bad historian. Professor Sauer, is at his best in the passages of his book in which he moves within the square for which his mind was evidently born: geography, ecology, economy, biology. Within this area of knowledge, he has put together a number of acute, concrete, pertinent observations which will remain as a solid contribution to the geography and therefore to the history of that part of the new world which received the first impact of the discovery.
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