Geography and Travel

Abstract

A BOOK which has now reached its third edition, in addition to five reprints of the earlier editions, requires no technical criticism; it has obviously filled a long-felt want. We have approached it from the point of view of one who from boyhood has wandered about England and later in many other lands, having been taught to use his eyes and understand something of their geography, geology, flora and fauna, etc., and has in turn tried to impart some of this knowledge to the next generation. With such interests one is never alone; indeed, the trouble is to find time to do all the things that tumble over one another in their urgency when in new country. What a treasury of other people's learning and experience is disclosed by Dr. Wilmore; his simple classifications, the succession of chapters on land forms, make all so clear; so that one can without great difficulty puzzle out some of the riddles of our own Lake District, not un-associated in our memories with the genial enthusiasm of Dr. Marr, and even attempt the more complex conundrums set us in the High Alps.

The Groundwork of Modern Geography: an Introduction to the Science of Geography.

By Dr. Albert Wilmore. Third edition, revised and enlarged. Pp. xxii + 533 + 27 plates. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1931.) 7s. 6d.