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MR. WETHERILL has a story of surpassing interest to tell, and he succeeds in conveying, by means of the accounts of the work of the chief explorers, a succinct summary of the main features of the geography of the four continents other than Europe. Told in this fashion, with the emphasis on the lands and their peoples, the geography of the remoter continents becomes vivid, and thus appeals to the pupils with a sense of reality; experience with this book leads to these conclusions. For example, the characteristics of the people and the lands near the Gambia and the Niger gain in precision and definiteness in relation to the travels of Mungo Park; and the gradual development of the story of the conquest of the Central Australian desert provides a useful account of the control exerted upon life on the earth by the absence of rain in a hot region.
The World, and its Discovery.
By H. B. Wetherill. Part i., Africa, pp. 119. Part ii., Asia, pp. 99. Part iii., America, pp. 131. Part iv., Australia, pp. 62. (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press.) Price 1s. each.
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The World, and its Discovery . Nature 97, 520 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/097520a0
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