Geographical thought has been an age-old subject and this book has been a comprehensive study of the same. Now in its second edition, the book has been updated with 5 new chapters, to add contemporary approach to the subject. New to this edition: Inclusion of the chapters on ??Nature, Method, Basic Ideas and Conceptual Structure ofGeography??, ??The Problem of Dualities and how it was Resolved??, ??Nature and Role of Geography as a Social Science: Geographical vs. Sociological Imagination??, ??Time Vis- -vis Space: The Pattern-Process Perspective in Geographic Research??, and ??New Directions in the Twenty-First Century Human Geography??. Chapters updated as per the current developments in the field.