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A SERIES of sketch-maps presenting the fundamental geographical facts of regions and places, with brief explanatory text. The author claims three advantages for this method. In his first claim, that pupils will acquire the habit of working out the geography of a place for themselves, instead of reading up the facts, we think that he is over-sanguine. Boys, at any rate, will just learn up his sketch-maps by heart as they formerly did the written facts. Probably, however (as he claims next), they will remember these facts better, and will find the diagrams more interesting than solid paragraphs. Also the third advantage may be realised—the pupils will become accustomed to illustrate their work with sketch-maps, and this is an excellent habit.
A Sketch-map Geography: A Text-book of World and Regional Geography for the Middle and Upper School.
By E. G. R. Taylor. Pp. viii + 147. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1921.) 5s
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 109, 135 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109135c0
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