TY - BOOK AU - Buchanan,Noel TI - Discovering the wonders of our world SN - 0276421086 U1 - 508 PY - 1993/// CY - London PB - Reader's Digest Association Limited KW - Natural history KW - Natural monuments N1 - At head of title: Reader's Digest; Includes index; The world's greatest natural wonders; Africa; Europe; Middle East and Asia; Australia; New Zealand and the Pacific; North America; South Africa; Antarctica; Forces that shape the earth; The forces that shape the Earth; Why the continents are drifting across the globe; The fiery, active youth of volcanoes; Volcanoes in old age; The cracks where the Earth divides; Lurching rocks that can wreak terrible destruction; The violent birth of mountains; Sun and gravity : forces of erosion; Limestone country : land of caves and dry valleys; Coasts : where land and sea battle for supremacy; How rivers carve patters in the land; The brief lives of lakes; The awesome power of glaciers to sculpt the landscape; Deserts : changing landscapes sandblasted by the world; Oceans of drifting sand; Features; Venturing "beyond the garden gate"; Patterns of toil and husbandry; Accepting a challenge from nature; Landscape in the eye of the beholder; Powerful backdrops for screen drama; Awesome monuments to lost empires ER -