The Americas, Vol. 1: New Regional Geographies (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Americas, Vol. 1: New Regional Geographies

Provincial Government of British Columbia 36; and to the Moravian Mission Society for Figs. 24 and 25.

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Excerpt from The Americas, Vol. 1: New Regional Geographies

This book is the first of a series of four which are intended to be used as text-books in the last four years of geographical work in Secondary Schools. It deals with The Americas, and the treatment is regional. There should be no sharp distinction between what is known as "Physical" and "General" Geography. The chief facts of physical geography should be introduced into the school course just where they come quite naturally. In this book emphasis has been laid upon that part of physical geography which deals with structure, the Ice Age, river work, etc., but this has not been done to the neglect of the historical, human and economic sides. Many opportunities are given to encourage map drawing, and the graphical representation of climatic data, trade returns, the construction of population maps, etc. The latter exercises arc especially suitable at this stage of geography teaching. In the second book, Asia and Australasia will be taken, and emphasis will be laid upon the meteorological side of geography, whilst in the third, when Africa and Europe will be dealt with, the bias will be more definitely an economic one. Thus the groundwork of General and Physical Geography will have been covered, and the pupils prepared for a revision of the whole world from a new point of view as given in the fourth book, "Geography and World Power," in which Mr. Fairgrieve has shown the influence of geographical conditions upon world history.

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