Excerpt from A Junior Geography of the World Maps, then, are the shorthand of geography, and the power to read a series of maps showing relief, climate, vegetation, pro ducts, etc., and to imagine from these maps the men who live and work in these countries, is the power of mind at which the geographer aims. Boys and girls study geography in order that they may know the world and the men who are at work in it, and thus may do their share of the world's work thoroughly well when they leave school and become citizens. Their knowledge of geography should help them to become better men and women, to assist in making the world a better abiding place for its inhabitants. Geography describes how men live and work. It shows how their lives depend upon the lands they inhabit. It indicates how men's work depends chiefly upon the kind of climate which occurs where they live. 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.