Geographical And Industrial Studies Asia

Author : Nellie B. Allen
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330137161
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book Geographical and Industrial Studies written by Nellie B. Allen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Geographical and Industrial Studies: Asia The aim of the writer has been to make the Far-Eastern continent of Asia mean more to the readers of this book than a collection of colored areas, a series of names, or a maze of dots and lines. The locating of black dots and wiggly lines with 110 mental pictures of the real places for which they stand, and the memorizing of lists of products only to forget the country to which each belongs, is the geography of the past. Modern geography is alive. The up-to-date teacher deals with real people, real industries, real places, and real relations. The uneven lines are mighty rivers filled with craft, furnishing water for irrigation, and power for lighting and manufacturing. The black dots are large cities crowded with busy workers whose lives, homes, and occupations are as real as those by which the pupils are surrounded. The world is bound together by ties of close relationship, boundaries are changing, and countries heretofore closed to outside nations are opening their doors to the great world life and are entering into commerce and trade. As the United States has reached farther and farther into the Pacific Ocean, Asia has come correspondingly nearer, and our future relations with this great continent may be as close and as vital as those which at present exist between our country and Europe. 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. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.