Download or read book Far Places (Classic Reprint) written by James Mackintosh Bell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Far Places In writing Far Places I confess to a definite object. Behind the descriptions of remote localities, the de tails of adventures, lurks the hope that the book may, in some small measure, encourage an interest in the science of geography. The word stirs memories of childhood days, of laborious learning of the names Of countries, their capital cities and other important towns, their physical features, the principal com modities each produces. But geography is much more than that. Without a knowledge of it, how can we understand history, and the tangled sequence Of political events? How can we visualise the eco nomic development of the world from those dim ages of the past when man was a wild animal hunting his prey much as the wolf does to - day, to this period of aeroplanes, of telegraphs, telephones and radios? 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.