geography

INTRODUCTION

BOOK THREE OF VOLUME ONE IS NOT A STUDY OF THE EARTH AND ITS FEATURES AND OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF LIFE ON EARTH, INCLUDING HUMAN LIFE AND THE EFFECTS OF H UMAN ACTIVITY, AS DEFINED BELOW.

BOOK THREE WAS NAMED LA GEOGRAPHIE IN AND AS A SALUTE TO CONSISTENCY. AS THE FIRST TWO BOOKS OF THIS VOLUME ONE ARE NAMED A LA FRANCAIS, LA GENEALOGIE AND LA CHRONOLOGIE, RESPECTIVELY, IT IS ALTOGETHER FITTING AND PROPER THAT WE DO THIS.

BOOK THREE IS THE “ESPACE” ELEMENT OF THE ESPACE-TEMPS DESIGNATION OF THIS FIRST VOLUME, VOLUME ONE.

BOOK THREE WINDS ITS WRYE WAY OUT OF AND FROM ITS PRIMITIVE BEGINNINGS AMIDST LONESOME ROADS IN THOSE FORESTS PRIMEVALS OF BACKWOODS PENNSYLVANIA, AMERICA. TO VENTURE TO EMBARK UPON SIX, SOMETIMES TROUBLESOME, CROSSINGS OF THE SAME GREAT OCEAN OF WATER AT LEAST SIX FULL TIMES.

BOOK THREE WANDERS AROUND AND ABOUT WITH LEO WRYE MILITARILY AND AIMFULLY AND AIMLESSLY AND ARTFULLY IN ALMOST ELEVEN FOREIGN LANDS AND COUNTRIES BEFORE ACHIEVING AN UNCERTAIN DEGREE OF STATIC STASIS IN THE NIRVANIC COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY – A BEAUTIFUL GOVERNMENTAL SUBDIVISION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. IT IS SAID THAT, WITH SOME CREDENCE, THAT NEVER EVER AGAIN DID LEO WRYE EVER EVEN AGAIN CONTEMPLATE FURTHER OR FARTHER WANDERING OVER THE PERIOD OF THE NEXT SOME FORTY YEARS OR SO OF HIS REMAINING YEARS.

BOOK THREE IS A CHAPTERIZED ACCOUNTING FOR, IN SEVEN ILLUSTRIOUSLY CHARTED AND ILLUSTRATED CHAPTERS, THE MAJOR GEOGRAPHIC EPISODES IN THE SEMI-ACTIVE AND FORMERLY SEMI-ITINERANT LIFE OF LEO WRYE. EACH SUCCESSIVE GEOGRAPHIC PERIOD, IT WILL BE NOTED BY THE MORE ASTUTE, IS GEOGRAPHICALLY DIVIDED FROM ITS PREDECESSOR BY THIS LARGE OCEAN, WHICH IS CALLED BY THE FRENCH, IN FRANCE, “L’ATLANTIQUE,” BUT TRANSLATES QUITE READILY INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS “THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.” SEE MAP.

Ge-og-ra-phy – n., pI. Geographies. Abbr. Geog.

1 . The study of the earth and its features and of the distribution of life on the earth, including human life and the effects of human activity.

2. The physical characteristics, especially the surface features, of an area.

3. A book on Geography.

4. An ordered arrangement of constituent elements: charting a geography of the mind . [Latin geAgraphia, from Greek : geA-. geo- + -graphia. -graphy.l

– AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY