Peter Parley's Method of Telling About Geography to Children [microform]

Download or read book Peter Parley's Method of Telling About Geography to Children [microform] written by Samuel Griswold Goodrich and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the present work, I have ventured to treat a subject usually presented in a systematic form, in a somewhat colloquial manner, taking often a story-teller's latitude in the use of phraseology, in the method of illustration, and in the arrangement of facts. ... It is this adaptation of geography to early instruction, that has brought it into almost universal use, as a first study for children."--Preface, signed "P.P.", p. [v]-vi. Includes questions for study. Cover title: Peter Parley's geography for children. By Samuel G. Goodrich. Cf. his Recollections of a lifetime (New York, 1856), v. 2, p. 540. Massachusetts copyright 1829 by Samuel G. Goodrich. Each paragraph numbered. In printed stiff paper covers with cloth spine. Publisher's advertisement for "A new and highly improved edition of the Malte Brun school geography and atlas, by the Author of Parley's geography for children."--lower cover."