Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...
Excerpt from An Introduction to Stratigraphy (British Isles)Along almost exactly the same lines, geographers have made this fundamental change in their methods of teaching within the last decade. One now no longer learns long lists of capes, bays, towns and the products of some - probably temporary - political unit, but, with a clear and brilliant conception of the world divided into natural regions, each with its own fixed climatic, topograph...
Excerpt from An Introduction to Stratigraphy (British Isles)
Still, there is a via media, and the writer feels convinced that a mass of facts which has been assimilated as a natural result of a vivid mental picture of the causes will be likely to remain even if the picture be afterwards seen to be faulty in many respects.
Again, it is to be feared that some writers will find in this book some of their own pet theories almost, if not complete...
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
