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DR. SKEAT has produced an attractive book, fresh in outlook, inspiring and thoroughly readable. We miss with gratitude the wearisome reiterations of the ordinary run of text-books and find the author continually turning to original sources and taking new points of view. Both matter and style commend the book and give it a place by itself. The greater part treats of the physiographical side of geography, but the concluding section gives an excellent introduction to human geography. There are many well-selected diagrams, sketch-maps, and illustrations, and a copious bibliography. The book is too advanced for most school work, but should prove valuable to teachers of geography. Its careful use could not fail to improve the teaching of the subject.
The Principles of Geography, Physical and Human.
Dr.
E. G.
Skeat
By (Mrs. Woods). Pp. 432. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1923.) 6s. 6d. net.
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The Principles of Geography, Physical and Human. Nature 112, 236 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112236a0
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