写给学生的世界地理

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Delightfully readable, yet quite informative. Hillyer's way of telling the storyY Is so engaging to young children and old readers! Virgil M. Hillyer was the first headmaster of Calvert School, but he is probably best known in the homeschooling community for his three textbooks for young people, which are still used in Calvert School and homeschooling.

This geography book was written in a chatty, conversational, almost sing-song style, including sixty-one chapters. It is for the child who: thinks heaven is in the sky and hell is under the ground; has never heard of London or Paris and thinks a Dane is a kind of dog.

It is to give a traveler's view of the World-but not a commercial travel- er's view; It is to show the child what is beyond the horizon, from "Kalamazoo to Timbuktu."; It is show him not only "the Seven Wonders of the World" but the seventy times Seven Wonders of the PHOM