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Madam How and Lady Why

Charles Kingsley

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Madam How and Lady Why | Charles Kingsley

Madam How and Lady Why

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Did you ever wish you knew how to explain natural phenomena such as earthquakes and volcanoes to your children? Search no more, this book has all the answers and gives them in a pedagogical way.
Peak of Teneriffe, a volcano which is hardly burnt out yet, and may burn up again any day, standing up out of the sea more than 12,000 feet high still, and once it must have been double that height.  Some think that it is perhaps the true Mount Atlas, which the old Greeks named when first they ventured out of the Straits of Gibraltar down the coast of Africa, and saw the great peak far to the westward, with the clouds cutting off its top; and said that it was a mighty giant, the brother of the Evening Star, who held up the sky upon his shoulders, in the midst of the Fortunate Islands, the gardens of the daughter of the Evening Star, full of strange golden fruits; and that Perseus had turned him into stone, when he passed him with the Gorgon’s Head.

But you will see, too, that most of these red and black dots run in crooked lines; and that many of the clusters run in lines likewise.

Look at one line: by far the largest on the earth.  You will learn a good deal of geography from it.

The red dots begin at a place called the Terribles, on the east side of the Bay of Bengal.  They run on, here and there, along the islands of Sumatra and Java, and through the Spice Islands; and at New Guinea the line of red dots forks.  One branch runs south-east, through islands whose names you never heard, to the Friendly Islands, and to New Zealand.  The other runs north, through the Philippines, through Japan, through Kamschatka; and then there is a little break of sea, between Asia and America: but beyond it, the red dots begin again in the Aleutian Islands, and then turn down the whole west coast of America, down from Mount Elias (in what was, till lately, Russian America) towards British Columbia.  Then, after a long gap, there are one or two in Lower California (and we must not forget the terrible earthquake which has just shaken San Francisco, between those two last places); and when we come down to Mexico we find the red d

Elizabeth 07/08/2023
I'm sure there's something that I'm missing on the science side of things, but I don't know how you could get a child interested in science better than with a nature lore kind of book like this one.
Jennifer 11/05/2021
This is a very interesting and unique book. It is a book about science from the 1860s, written in a very imaginative and engaging style, as if the reader is listening to a father teaching his son all about the world around him, using plenty of imagination and a poetic style.

Obviously, a book from t
Shelly 05/22/2020
This book is a mix of the best ideas (the sections on eyes and no eyes, analysis vs synthesis, etc), the worst ideas (the purpose of an earthquake) and generally good ideas (geological descriptions).

The good parts are so very good, the bad so very ugly. With my second student I will use only the bes
Ava 08/23/2018
It's like he's always talking down to the reader.

"Now little kid, I would tell you about this and this but you're too stupid, not old and wise and clever like me... Ah hah! Here is something you might comprehend! I will talk a bit about it. But THAT, oh, don't even try to think about such and such,
Cherylg 05/17/2017
It was ok but hard to follow

You might relly love this book if your a big English reader. But for me it was a little hard to follofollow.

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