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LOVE OF MANKIND: Philanthropía LOVE OF THE UNIVERSE: Philokosmía
VIII. Geography
Maps, Travelogues, & Stories of Place
4-Cycle Overview:
Cycle 1: Geography
[~2 days/wk]
New World at Home (Kirby/ North) [Ch. 1-15] *Used 3 Cycles
[Optional] The New World at Home (Geography Pictures for a Living Education) *Used 3 Cycles
Christina Goes to the Holy Land (Khoury) [Wk 15-20]
Marco Polo (Demi) *PDF
Physical Geography (See here):
[Years 1-4] Home Geography (Long) [Wk 4-14] & Elementary Geography (Mason) [Wk 15-27]
[~1 day/wk + mapwork & drills]
Brendan the Navigator: Exploring the Ancient World (Simms) *PDF [Wk 1-11]
In the Footsteps of Egeria to Sinai and the Holy Land: A Fourth Century Travel Journal, A Twenty-First Century Pictorial Odyssey (Paidea Classics) *Out of print, another option if it comes back
Adventures of Marco Polo (Freedman) *PDF
Physical Geography (See here):
[Years 1-4] Home Geography (Long) [Wk 4-14] & Elementary Geography (Mason) [Wk 15-27]
[~2 day/wk + mapwork & drills]
Brendan the Navigator: Exploring the Ancient World (Simms) *PDF [Wk 1-6]
Following Egeria: A Visit to the Holy Land through Time and Space (Farley) [Wk 7-18]
Marco Polo (Komroff) *PDF
The Brendan Voyage (Severin)
Following Egeria: A Visit to the Holy Land through Time and Space (Farley) OR Egeria: diary of a pilgrimage (Gingras) *PDF
How the Heather Looks (Bogden) OR In Search of England (Morton) OR H.V. Morton's Britain (Morton)
Cycle 2: Geography
[~2 days/wk]
New World at Home (Kirby/ North) [Ch. 1-15] *Used 3 Cycles
[Optional] The New World at Home (Geography Pictures for a Living Education) *Used 3 Cycles
Physical Geography (See here):
[Years 1-4] Home Geography (Long) & Elementary Geography (Mason)
Richard Halliburton's Book of Marvels: the Orient (Halliburton)
Seabird (Holling)
Physical Geography (See here):
[Years 1-4] Home Geography (Long) & Elementary Geography (Mason)
Magellan (Zweig) OR The Jason Voyage (Severin)
Athos, the Holy Mountain (Loch) OR The Northern Thebaid (Rose)
Cycle 3: Geography
[~2 days/wk]
New World at Home (Kirby/ North) [Ch. 1-15] *Used 3 Cycles
[Optional] The New World at Home (Geography Pictures for a Living Education) *Used 3 Cycles
The Book of Indians (Holling)/ The Book of Cowboys (Holling)
Physical Geography (See here):
[Years 1-4] Home Geography (Long) & Elementary Geography (Mason)
Tree in the Trail (Holling)
Physical Geography (See here):
[Years 1-4] Home Geography (Long) & Elementary Geography (Mason)
North America (Allen)
The North American Thebaid (Sidway)
Of Courage Undaunted (Daugherty)
Under the Tuscan Sun (Mayes)
Another Culture/Another World (Oleksa) OR Testament of Memory: A Siberian Life (Chevalkov)
The Oregon Trail: An Illustrated Edition of Francis Parkman's Western Adventure (Parkman)
A Traveller in Rome (Morton) OR A Traveller in Italy (Morton)
Cycle 4: Geography
[~2 days/wk]
Little Folk in Modern Lands (Laurence/ North)
[Optional] Little Folk in Modern Lands (Geography Pictures for a Living Education)
Paddle to the Sea (Holling)
Physical Geography (See here):
[Years 1-4] Home Geography (Long) & Elementary Geography (Mason)
Richard Halliburton's Book of Marvels: the Occident (Halliburton)
Minn of the Mississippi (Holling)
Physical Geography (See here):
[Years 1-4] Home Geography (Long) & Elementary Geography (Mason)
Prisoners of Geography: Fully Updated New Edition (Marshall) OR Englishman in the Court of the Tsar (Benagh)
Royal Road to Romance (Halliburton)
Travels with Charley in Search of America (Steinbeck)
By Cycle:
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