APPLETONS' 



^^Geographical Series^ 



Edited by H. J. MACKINDEft, M. A., 



Student of Christ Church, Peadcr in Geography in the University of Oxford, Principal 



of Keading College. 



A COMPLETE ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD. 



THE series will consist of twelve volumes, each being an essay descrip- 

 tive of a great natural region, its marked physical features, and the 

 life of its people. Together the volumes will give a complete account 

 of the world, more especially as the field of human activity. 



FOR READERS AS WELL AS STUDENTS. 



The series is intended for reading rather than for reference, and will 

 stand removed on the one hand from the monumental work of Reclus, 

 and on the other from the ordinary text-book, gazetteer, and compendium. 



In their presentation of the facts the authors will study above all things 

 perspective, and will seek to convey right proportions rather than statis- 

 tical accuracy. Facts will not be presented merely as f^icts, but always in 

 their causal or graphic relations. Thus, each volume will give a succession 

 of vivid ideas, to be grasped pictorially, and to remain in the memory. 

 The reader will be led to visualize a great relief model in color, with its 

 seas and its lands, its uplands and its lowlands, its rivers and their valleys, 

 its forests and deserts, and its seasonal changes. Above all, he will think 

 of it as the stage of human action, and will realize the relations of man— 

 and especially of his economic and political organizations— to the grand 

 features of physical geography. 



Care will be taken to tell the results of natural and economic science 

 in language devoid of technicality, and to make each of the books interest- 

 ing and attractive to every reader, although a solid contribution to geo- 

 graphical literature. 



FOR TEACHERS, STUDENTS, AND BUSINESS MEN. 



The series will appeal to teachers, to students, to tourists, to business 

 men, and to the general reader. The teacher will find suggestions for 

 salient points in his teaching; the general reader will learn the persistent 

 factors controlling the passing events chronicled in the newspapers; the 



