Far Off or Asia and Australia Described : With Anecdotes and Illustrations

About The Book : This little work pleads for the notice of parents and teachers on the same grounds as its predecessor, "Near Home."Its plea is not completeness, nor comprehensiveness, nor depth of research, nor splendor of description; but the very reverse,—its simple, superficial, desultory character, as "better adapted to the volatile beings for whom it is designed. Too long have their immortal minds been captivated by the adventures and achievements of knights and princesses, of fairies and magicians; it is time to excite their interest in real persons, and real events. In childbood that taste is formed which leads the youth to delight in novels, and romances; a taste which has become so general, that every town has its circiilating library, and every shelf in that library is filled with works of fiction. But this is not the only aim of the present work; it seeks also to excite an interest in those facts which ought most to interest immortal beings—facts relative to souls, and their eternal happiness—to God, and his infinite glory. About The Author : Favell Lee Mortimer (1802-1878), born Favell Lee Bevan was a British Evangelical author of educational books for children. Bevan oversaw the religious education of children on her father's estates, at Fosbury, in Wiltshire and in East Barnet and her interest in educational writing grew from that experience. She developed her own method of teaching children to read based on an early kind of 'flash cards' rather than the traditional hornbook, with her Reading Disentangled (1834), a set of phonics flashcards, being credited by some as the first flashcards.