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-a-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.