Abstract
FROM the title of this book one might expect to find a treatment on fresh lines, with the selection and arrangement of its matter governed by the relevance of the materials to human needs. It is in fact a sound text-book on quite conventional lines. Its relation to a previous work is stated in the preface (p. vi) as “The content and organization have come largely from Elements of Geography, a college text by two of the authors. The third author... with the background of... teaching experience in secondary schools... has restated the subject matter for use at that level of instruction.” It is added that the accompanying laboratory manual provides sufficient work for two semesters, with a hint that possibly it may be confined to one semester. The book could be used for the physical geography of the last year of the high school ; it assumes a good elementary knowledge of the home country (United States of America).
The Earth and its Resources
A Modern Physical Geography. By Prof. Vernor C. Finch, Prof. Glenn T. Trewartha and M. H. Shearer. Pp. x + 634. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1941.) 17s.
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FAWCETT, C. The Earth and its Resources. Nature 149, 232–233 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149232b0
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