UNDER this title Mrs. Macdonell has attempted to supply what she believes to be a want long felt in teaching geography to young children. She finds, as every teacher finds, that children prefer the ...

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The National Geographic Maps division recently began production of its Atlas of the World, tenth edition, due for publication in Fall, 2014. The effort marks the anniversary of the first edition of ...

WASHINGTON – From lines scratched in ancient dirt to medieval charts with drawings of monsters in unknown parts of the ocean to modern computer printouts, maps have served a vital role throughout ...

In 1837, the New England Institute published the “Atlas of the United States Printed for the Use of the Blind” to help the vision impaired learn geography without the use of Braille. In 1837, the New ...

Way back in 1932, Charles O. Paullin and John K. Wright published an Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States. It was a seminal reference book, containing almost 700 fascinating maps—and ...

The story has become something of a legend in certain circles. Sometime in the early 1970s, geographers at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) got a tip that hundreds of historical atlases ...

Jeff Clark's Essential Geography of Vancouver Island is a comprehensive document, measuring two feet by three feet, that ...

AT last a British firm has supplied the atlas for which colleges and universities have been asking for years. For anything between school work and a general reference atlas it used to be necessary to ...

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