"Traces on the Rhodian Shore is one of the best and most important books published by a geographer in the English-speaking world in the last hundred years. as with many seminal books, the perception of its worth is likely to increase over a long time."--Professional Geographer "Through a highly interdisciplinary framework, Glacken relates social and natural phenomena to the supposed dichotomy of man and nature. Environmental influences on culture and vice versa are discussed from an original point of view; it is avery timely subject. Containing a wealth of data and new approaches to the story of the development of human society, the account is absorbing and thought provoking for men in all areas as well as the educated laymen."--Choice "A book such as this rarely appear anymore. . . .Its size, its comprehensiveness, its involvement with the classical sources, its modesty, and its urbanity make this an unusual book. Its rarity, however, in now ay diminishes its value, whether for the general historical or for the historian of those particular disciplines specifically concerned with the nature of man and his place in nature."--American Anthropologist