Practical Geography for the Blind (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Clara L. Pratt
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780260122896
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Book Description
Excerpt from Practical Geography for the Blind In order to make geography practical to our non-seeing people, we must contrive means whereby the fingers may tell that which our eyes reveal to as. Fortunately few of us share the opinion of some workers in the field that geography cannot be taught to the blind. We believe that it can, al though we concede that they may not get the same picture of great spaces, the immensity of mountains, and the glory of autumn forests as we do. With models, maps, and cut outs, accompanied by explanations we can give to them much that will convey to them satisfactory impressions. Work along this line has gone slowly indeed through the years, but apparatus is now being devised more rapidly, and we should soon find our schools well equipped. Good maps and globes are very important features in either learning or teaching geography and, though we believe that the best way is to have each pupil make his own map, yet he must have a correct map to study and to copy from. A hundred years ago, embossed maps were hardly known. They were ill-made, the lines so indistinct as to be hard to follow, and the line-type markings made them rather cumber some. Modern maps are quite uniform, undetailed, and easy to understand. A careful study of plate-making with proper paper and proven schemes for representing each map feature has enabled us to produce excellent braille maps. Relief globes are a far more difficult proposition, - so much so that the expensive process of making them forbids their being sold at a reasonable price. Therefore, we use our own methods of depicting continents, parallels, meridians, etc., which fill our many needs. 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.