ABSTRACT
Geography is pre-eminently a practical subject despite the tendency of geographers to fall back upon abstruse theoretical arguments to justify its existence. The conclusion of a group of students at a recent geography summer school are very much to the point. Discussing the age-old problem of a definition for geography these students finally stated that ‘Geography is what geographers do’. This somewhat quizzical definition is probably as near the truth as statements that geography is human ecology, or the science which relates man to his environment, or many others of the same ilk.
