Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Australia and the Islands

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Travel & Geography, Reference

Authors: Frank G. Carpenter In Year : 1904

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Australia and the Islands

Preface
General View of Australia
In Sydney, the New York of Australia
Sheep and Wool in Australia
South Australia and the Great Central Desert -- Adelaide
Gold Mining in Australia -- Ballarat -- Melbourne
A Land of Strange Plants and Animals
Queensland -- The Pearl Fisheries -- The Great Barrier Reef
Among the Aborigines or Native Australians
Western Australia and Tasmania
New Zealand
A Visit to a Meet-freezing Factory
Wellington -- The Hot Springs -- Among the Maoris
New Caledonia and other French Islands
New Guinea
Northeastern New Guinea and Adjacent British Isles
The Fijis and Other British Possessions of the Pacific
Samoa
Our Hawaiian Possessions -- Honolulu
The Industries of the Hawaiian Islands
A Visit to a Volcano
The Island of Guam
General View of the Philippine Islands
Manila, the Capital of the Philippines
Home Life and the Markets
A Trip through the Country -- Rice, Sugar and Tobacco
Through the Mountains of Luzon
The Visayan Islands -- The Hemp Industry
Mindanao and the Moros
The Sulu Archipelago
Borneo
The Dutch East Indies
Batavia, the Dutch Capital
The Natives of Java
Some Industries of Java
Sumatra
Singapore
Ceylon
Mauritius and Reunion
Madagascar -- The East Coast
The Hovas and the Central Plateau
Among the Sakalavas
Zanzibar and Other East African Islands
West African Islands -- St. Helena
The Cape Verde and Canary Archipelagoes
The Madeiras and the Azores
The Balearic Isles
Corsica and Elba
Sardinia and Sicily
Malta and the Grecian Isles
Crete, Rhodes, and Cyprus
The West Indies -- General View
The Lesser Antilles
General View of Porto Rico -- A Walk through San Juan
Across Porto Rico
Haiti, the Island of the Two Black Republics
Jamaica
Cuba, the Pearl of the Antilles
Havana
On the Sugar and Tobacco Plantations
The Bahamas and the Bermudas
The Islands of Ice and Snow
Islands around and about South America

The purpose of this book is to give the children who read it a living knowledge of Australia and the chief islands of the world, and especially those which have become colonies or dependencies of the United States. In a personally conducted tour through the eyes of teh author they travel over [these islands], seeing our brown-skinned cousins of the several colonies as they are at home. They learn about the resources of the various islands, and of their value to the United States. They visit the people on the farms and in the factories. They spend some time in the cities and villages, and they explore the wilds, observing the wonders of plant and animal creation. (from the Preface)