WITH
Frank G. Carpenter
You can go round the world under your own living-room lamp by reading the travels of Frank G. Carpenter.
Millions of Americans have already found Carpenter their ideal fellow traveller, and have enjoyed visiting with him all the corners of the globe. He tells his readers what they want to know, shows them what they want to see, and makes them feel that they are there.
Doubleday, Page & Company, in response to the demand from Carpenter readers, is now publishing the complete story of Carpenter’s World Travels, of which this book is the ninth in the series. Those already available are:
1. “The Holy Land and Syria”
2. “From Tangier to Tripoli”
Morocco, Algeria,
Tunisia, and Tripoli
3. “Alaska, Our Northern Wonderland”
4. “The Tail of the Hemisphere”
Chile and Argentina
5. “From Cairo to Kisumu”
Egypt, The Sudan,
and Kenya Colony
6. “Java and the East Indies”
Java, Sumatra,
The Moluccas, New Guinea,
Borneo, and the Malay Peninsula
7. “France to Scandinavia”
France, Belgium,
Holland, Denmark,
Norway, Sweden
8. “Mexico”
9. “Australia, New Zealand, and Some Islands of the
South Seas”
Australia, New Zealand,
New Guinea, The Samoas,
The Fijis and the Tongas
Carpenter’s World Travels are the only works of their kind. These books are familiar talks about the countries and peoples of the earth, with the author on the spot and the reader in his home. No other one man has visited so much of the globe and written on the ground, in plain and simple language, the story of what he has found. Carpenter’s World Travels are not the casual record of incidents of the journey, but the painstaking study of a trained observer, devoting his life to the task of international reporting. Each book is complete in itself; together they form the most vivid, interesting, and understandable picture of our modern world ever published. They are the fruit of more than thirty years of unparalleled success in writing for the American people, and the capstone of distinguished services to the teaching of geography in our public schools, which have used some four million copies of the Carpenter Geographical Readers.
In the present state of affairs, a knowledge of nations and peoples is essential to an understanding of what is going on and of how and why all that is happening affects us. Carpenter takes his readers to the lands of the news and makes more real the daily flashes by cable and radio.
A word to your bookseller will enable you to get the books of Carpenter’s World Travels already published and to learn how you may arrange to secure the entire series.