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Excerpt from Human Geography Peoples and Countries, Vol. 1 A Content Sub j ect - Geography is one of the most important Of the content subjects. It is taught in practically every elementary school in all civilized countries.' The study is universal because geographic knowledge is a need common to all enlightened people. During the past few years, there has been a great awakening of interest in this subject. 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.

For courses in human geography, cultural geography and introductory geography, in departments of geography, anthropology, history and political science. Stressing the dynamism of modern geography, the author studies the distributing populations and activities, and the interrelationships among people and regions.