Laura M Budden: Pictorial and Practical Geography Book 1 Groundwork of Geography

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Laura M Budden : Pictorial and Practical Geography Book 1 Groundwork of Geography

Evans Brothers Ltd, 1964

1964 Paperback covers bumped to corners & a little rubbed to edges, Pages flat & tightly bound. Book Extract; Geography is the sublime science which sees in the heavens the re-flection of the earth," wrote Ptolemy, about a.d. 150. We of thetwentieth century must claim for geography a definition no less lofty.It is more than a school subject to be crammed for examination pur-poses. It is a science and an art, which reaches out to, and embraces,astronomy, geology, climatology, biology, history, logic and socialscience.'To claim so much for geography, the study of it must be based onfirm and sure foundations. Such foundations have been laid in thebooks of this series. 'Book 1 has been written for the 11-12-year-old. It introduces himto maps and map-making, the tools of the geographer. From theinterest of local geography, it leads naturally to county, river basin andcapital. A step farther, in Part Three, takes us overseas: to the coldnorth, to the hot^dry south, to China and to the South Seas. In thesechapters the emphasis has been placed on how children elsewhere live,work, learn and play. Climatic and statistical ideas are introduced inPart Four: temperature, air pressure, rain, wind and cloud. Finally,' after some mathematical ideas about the earth, the great ball rolling inspace which is our home, comes an introduction to astronomy, andanswers to such perennial questions as: What is the sun ? How did theearth come to be ? How many stars are there ?, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall, Good

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