In this new book Professor Brigham has presented vividly and clearly those physiographic features of America which have been important in guiding the unfolding of our industrial and national life. The arrangement is mainly geographical. Among the themes receiving special treatment are: The Eastern Gateway of the United States, the Appalachian Barrier, the Great Lakes and American Commerce, the Civil War, and Mines and Mountain Life. Closing chapters deal with the unity and diversity of American life and with physiography as affecting American destiny.
The book will be found particularly interesting and valuable to students and teachers of geography and history, but it will also appeal to the general reader. The very large number of rare and attractive photographs and the numerous maps are of importance in vivifying and explaining the text.
GINN & COMPANY Publishers
The best example in this country of the kind of books that geography needs.—The Nation
THE LAKES OF NORTH AMERICA
By ISRAEL C. RUSSELL
Professor of Geology in the University of Michigan