Excerpt from The World and Its Discovery: A Description of the Continents Outside Europe Based on the Stories of Their Explorers
The object of this book is to arouse an interest in stories of discovery and then utilize it in behalf of geography. In so small a compass it has only been possible to deal briefly with a few journeys, but each account can, and in fact should, be supplemented from the original. Farther geographical information should also be added from the text-book in use to which the travel book is intended to give vivid illustration.
Stories of exploration, when not so full of incident as to distract from the purpose of class meeting - which is work, not amusement - may be studied in school with advantage for the following reasons:
(1) They contain a wealth of geographical information which can easily be memorized, because of the association with a central human figure.
(2) They show in many instances, by the contrast between the past and present of a region, the influence of civilized man in modifying natural conditions.
(3) They tell of man in the many stages of savagery, barbarism, and civilization.
(4) They give the historical details of the spread of world - knowledge.
The book is intended for use in lower and middle forms, alongside of the ordinary text-book.
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