Dragons and Tigers: A Geography of South, East, and Southeast Asia, Third Edition explores and illustrates conditions, events, problems, and trends of both larger regions and individual nations. Using a cross-disciplinary approach, the author discusses evolving physical and cultural landscapes. Nature-Society relations provide the foundation for social, economic, political, and environmental problems. Dragons and Tigers is the only textbook that covers all three regions – South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia – in one textbook.

It is the most comprehensive book on the market about the geography of Asia.

Barbara Weightman has studied, taught, traveled and photographed Asia for the past thirty years. She is currently a professor at California State University at Fullerton.