Our Home and Its Surroundings (Classic Reprint): A First Book of Modern Geography: A First Book of Modern Geography (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Ralph S. Tarr

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330333926 ISBN 13: 9781330333921

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Discover how land, water, and climate shape our world—and how people use what the land provides. This nonfiction guide invites elementary readers to explore natural products, how communities grow food and manage resources, and the many ways our surroundings influence daily life. Written as a practical geography companion, it connects real places to everyday uses, from farms and forests to rivers, lakes, and oceans.

In clear, accessible language, the book shows how different regions produce different goods, why trade matters, and how humans depend on the environment for food, shelter, and work. It uses illustrations and study cues to help young readers observe, think, and connect ideas about the world around them.

• How natural products come from the land and sea, and why climate and soil matter.


• Examples of farms, forests, mines, fisheries, and how these resources support communities.


• Ways people move goods, build economies, and use tools like elevators, ships, and railways.


• Hands-on prompts and activities that connect geography to daily life.

Ideal for students beginning geography, curious families, and classrooms exploring how their local landscape shapes the people and activities you see every day.

About this title

Product Description

Excerpt from Our Home and Its Surroundings: A First Book of Modern Geography This little book is intended to be the child's first step in the study of geography, and as it is a practical innovation, it perhaps needs an explanatory foreword. Necessity for Home Geography. - The final basis for all study of geography is actual experience. Yet textbooks on this subject rarely treat Home Geography at all, and those that do, devote but few pages to it. The subject should, we think, receive far more careful attention. Necessity for Other Basal Notions. - Home experience alone, however, cannot afford a complete basis for the later study of geography, because no one locality presents all the features required. From this it happens that the best books have contained some definitions and illustrations, as of mountain, river, valley, harbor, and factory, and have planned to build the later text with the ideas these gave as a foundation. Such conceptions are certainly necessary in the early part of geography; but mere definitions fail to produce vivid, accurate pictures. The average pupil who has pursued geography for a year has little notion of the great importance of soil, of what a mountain or a river really is, of the value of good trade routes, and why a vessel, cannot find a harbor wherever it will cast anchor along the coast. Yet such ideas are the proper basis for the study of geography in the higher grades. The fact that they are so often wanting is proof that our geography still lacks foundation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1330333926
• ISBN 13: 9781330333921
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172