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Synopsis Commerce exists because individuals and nations exchange their surplus goods and services to mutual advantage.  Commercial geography looks into differences in the peoples themselves, stages of industrial development and available resources resulting into differences in production of goods.  How the goods from excess region is sent to deficient region, i.e., the transportation methods are the domain of commercial geography.  "Commercial Geography" brings to the fore transportation routes (trade routes) at land, sea, and air.  The book makes elaborate discussion on trade routes of Asia, Atlantic South America, Africa, Mediterranean-Asiatic routes, North America, North Atlantic, North Pacific, Ocean and Lakes, Australasian and South Pacific, South America, Suez and Panama Canal along with related commercial features and facilities.  The book is of utmost utility to students, teachers, geographers and general readers.