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A NEW note is introduced into elementary geographical teaching by this volume, which appears to be the first of a series. After an introductory chapter on map-reading, there are several chapters describing the wayin which the American continent was discovered and opened up by Europeans. The sections are vividly written and cannot fail to interest, although the paragraphs and map dealing with Arctic Canada and the North-west passage would bear some revision. Then follows a general geographical survey of the Americas. Eight double-page plates with full descriptions area notable feature, and there are in addition several sketch maps and twocoloured orographical maps. The list of books for students' reading is useful, but might well be extended. The book as a whole gives a far more vivid picture of North and South America than the more formal analyticaltext-books succeed in doing.
The Americas.
J.
Bruce
By. (The “Explorer” Geographies). Pp. viii + 216. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1922.) 3s.
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B., R. The Americas. Nature 112, 201 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112201b0
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