Map Reading by Thomas Pickles

Map Reading

With seven full-page extracts from ordinance survey maps with grid, conventional signs, forty-five line diagrams, and seven photographs

by Thomas Pickles

J. M. Dent & Sons, 1963 [reprint with revisions], black and white photographic plates, map plates in colour, paperback

Near Fine Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, previous owners inscription on front end-paper, tape residue on end-papers (see photographs)

"This book is written primarily for candidates preparing for the General Certificate of Education.
The main body of the text aims at teaching the pupil to translate the flat contour map into a three-dimensional mental picture, to recognise at a glance the chief topographical features, and to relate these to the human geography of the region.  Brief reference is also made to such principles of physical geography as are necessary fro an understanding of the topography."