EXPLORERS' TALES

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 60, 12 March 1927, Page 21

EXPLORERS' TALES

Adventures of Exploration: Book V., Australia and New Zealand By Sir J. S. Keltic and S. C. Gilmour. London: George Philip and Son, Ltd.

In these enlightened days learning at school is made a pleasure and not a drudgery. School books are no longer a solemn recital of facts and figures: they are now. produced in a forio- that must appeal to every normal boy or girl. To entitle a geography book "Adventures in Exploration" is to attract at once the attention of the young scholar, and, when the contents and the pictures more than come up to the expectations raised by the title, the desired end has been achieved. The book will be read with avidity and having read it and loved it, the scholar will, very likely quite unconsciously have absorbed more real geographical knowledge than would have been conveyed to him by any number of the old-stylo test books. In this fifth book of the series the authors deal with Australia and New Zealand, and also with the Antarctic Continent. With such a wonderful field to draw upon it is small wonder that the result is excellent. Cook's voyages, the immortal stories of Australia's early explorers, the tragedies of polar expeditions the conquest of New Zealand's Southern Alps, and many another episode are all detailed in attractive narrative form instructive as well as entertaining. Although primarily a school book, this volume will be appreciated by many past the age of standards and classics