Author: Walter Herbert Olin

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-13

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9781330289679

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Excerpt from Commercial Geography This work is designed as a guide to the study of practical facts in Commercial Geography. It is prepared especially for the geography work of grades seven or eight in the common schools of our land. Care has been taken to present facts and definitions in a simple form and in a correlated manner. Each illustration has been selected to teach either a geographical or a commercial fact. The illustrations are new, and will interest the student, fixing the truth they teach. Part I classifies commerce and enumerates the aids to commerce. Each chapter closes with a question summary that will prove helpful to both teacher and pupil. Part II shows the author's plan of presenting a commercial trip. It combines description and information in such a way that the pupil feels he is making the journey himself. It teaches the art of travel and the great value of close observation. This trip is carefully chosen over new routes of travel, and incidentally teaches many important commercial and geographical facts. It shows teachers a practical plan for similar trips to our greatest manufacturing and commercial centers. Make the work as real and as practical as possible. This develops thoughtful research, strengthens memory, and quickens observation, while it gives general knowledge along valuable geographical lines. Part III presents miscellaneous facts of commerce and geography intended to encourage laboratory work along practical lines. The author believes it to be one of the most helpful features of the book. Teachers are urged to use this part of the work as their environments would suggest and time will permit. The world map is prepared expressly to show the commercial world in the present condition of trade, with railroad, cable and steamer lines of communication. To simplify the International Date Line problem, the Prime Meridian is made the unit of division on the Mercator projection plan. The continents are located to give the principal southern trade routes, even though it cuts the northern part of Siberia - unknown to commerce - out of the map. Cities are numbered according to their commercial rank in 1900. Names are found in an accompanying index, but do not appear on the map. All cities of 150,000 population or more are located and ranked on this map. Being prepared for constant use, the map is detached from the text and made of sufficient size to clearly show all elements of the map. Hoping that the youth of our land may be led to carefully study the problems of location, trade and invention, and their intimate relation to products, occupations, and the industries of nations, the author presents this volume to aid in this work. The youth are the hope of any nation. The perpetuity of our institutions, the commercial interests of our nation, and the responsibilities of state, rest with our school children of to-day. Therefore the author dedicates this work to the school boys and girls of America. 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.

Download or read book Commercial Geography written by Walter Herbert Olin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Commercial Geography This work is designed as a guide to the study of practical facts in Commercial Geography. It is prepared especially for the geography work of grades seven or eight in the common schools of our land. Care has been taken to present facts and definitions in a simple form and in a correlated manner. Each illustration has been selected to teach either a geographical or a commercial fact. The illustrations are new, and will interest the student, fixing the truth they teach. Part I classifies commerce and enumerates the aids to commerce. Each chapter closes with a question summary that will prove helpful to both teacher and pupil. Part II shows the author's plan of presenting a commercial trip. It combines description and information in such a way that the pupil feels he is making the journey himself. It teaches the art of travel and the great value of close observation. This trip is carefully chosen over new routes of travel, and incidentally teaches many important commercial and geographical facts. It shows teachers a practical plan for similar trips to our greatest manufacturing and commercial centers. Make the work as real and as practical as possible. This develops thoughtful research, strengthens memory, and quickens observation, while it gives general knowledge along valuable geographical lines. Part III presents miscellaneous facts of commerce and geography intended to encourage laboratory work along practical lines. The author believes it to be one of the most helpful features of the book. Teachers are urged to use this part of the work as their environments would suggest and time will permit. The world map is prepared expressly to show the commercial world in the present condition of trade, with railroad, cable and steamer lines of communication. To simplify the International Date Line problem, the Prime Meridian is made the unit of division on the Mercator projection plan. The continents are located to give the principal southern trade routes, even though it cuts the northern part of Siberia - unknown to commerce - out of the map. Cities are numbered according to their commercial rank in 1900. Names are found in an accompanying index, but do not appear on the map. All cities of 150,000 population or more are located and ranked on this map. Being prepared for constant use, the map is detached from the text and made of sufficient size to clearly show all elements of the map. Hoping that the youth of our land may be led to carefully study the problems of location, trade and invention, and their intimate relation to products, occupations, and the industries of nations, the author presents this volume to aid in this work. The youth are the hope of any nation. The perpetuity of our institutions, the commercial interests of our nation, and the responsibilities of state, rest with our school children of to-day. Therefore the author dedicates this work to the school boys and girls of America. 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.