Author: Vernon Llewellyn Denton

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-27

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 9780266811756

Excerpt from A World Geography for Canadian Schools The textual matter has been selected largely on an economic basis. What the people of a given region are doing is the important thing in geography. How Nature exercises her controls over that region, how the people react to their environment, the amount of success or failure - these things count heavily in present - day geography. Products are the result of two things, Nature and Man, reacting the one on the other. The scientific study and explanation of the nature and purpose of things brings geography into the class of reasoning subjects, and definitely eliminates the mere memorization of names of places and lists of things. Where amounts and values have been used to explain size and quantity of production they are for comparative purposes only and are not to be memorized. The latest available figures have been used, unless these were clearly unusual, as they frequently are, for the years 1930 - 3. It is urged that the figures in the text be compared with statistics from such works as the C anada Year Book and the Statesman's Year Book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.