Review: North Carolina: People and Environments, 2nd Edition
Patrick Vernon, Social Studies Teacher, reviewed in the North Carolina Geographic Alliance Newsletter, Volume 14, No. 1 (Spring, 2003), p. 8
'As a North Carolina native I was eager to peruse the geography text on my home state. . . .North Carolina: People and Environments is an excellent resource for teachers wanting background information about the Tar Heel
state. The charts, photos, and diagrams do an excellent job of exposing the reader to information. The text is written in an easy to follow style; one for which eight grade teachers might offer the text to proficient readers in their classes to further explore topics not addressed in the middle schoolers' book. As an individual from Caswell County, . . .I explored the book to see if less developed counties like my own got a fair representation. . . I was not disappointed by the information I obtained, especially considering that most of the information was from the 2000Census. I would imagine that as other readers give the text their own "county test," they will be pleasantly
surprised and impressed by the author's thoroughness in covering the 100 counties. In my opinion, the best part of North Carolina: People and Environments is its extensive collection of maps. The detail contained within the road
maps is proof enough that time and care was taken to provide accurate pieces of information, and, because regions of our state are broken down into subregions, readers can get a better look at all the microcosms that join
together to make our state a great place to live and an interesting subject to learn more about.'
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