JOURNEYS THROUGH THE AMERICAS

by DeForest Stull and Roy W. Hatch '02.Allyn & Bacon, 1951, 406 pp.

Journeys Through the Americas is a new edition of an already popular textbook for the upper grades. It describes the geography of the United States and Canada, as well as our neighbors to the south. It does this in a very interesting way, making full use of the travel technique whereby the pupil travels by airplane, automobile, boat, train and visits the various countries and learns about their important geographic features.

The book helps the pupil to understand how and why other people live, work and play. The material is arranged so as to show the importance of interdependence of the nations. It builds up a more complete picture of world understanding.

The two most exciting features of the present edition to a professional geographer are the excellently chosen and beautiful colored as well as black and white pictures. Their quality, selection, well worded captions and integration of the picture story into the text is unusually well done. No pupil can fail to be excited and interested about the geography of our great country and our Latin American neighbors when he uses this book. I feel sure that mother and dad, when they help their child with his geography lesson, will also enjoy and learn from this beautifully illustrated and well-organized geography text.