This practical and informative volume offers you a concise and accessible guide to understanding the wide range of landscapes that we can find around us. Any landform contains clues that hide fascinating information about how and why a particular area evolved the way it did to become the landscape we admire today.

Starting from a simple and rigorous introduction to geological timescales, plate tectonics and landforms, each specific chapter is dedicated to presenting a series of classic forms that characterize everything from highlands, lowlands and coasts to landscapes. glaciers and deserts, using full-color explanatory illustrations to demonstrate their origin and development. The photographs show some of the best examples of each feature scattered around the planet.

Rigorous yet accessible, this manual will captivate anyone who has ever been inspired by the landscape and wondered about its origins and history. In short, it will change the way we see the world around us.