SEE THE WORLD
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 him 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, are now publishing, for the first time, the complete story of Carpenter’s World Travels, of which this book is the fifth in the series. Those now 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.
The sixth book is about Java, which Mr. Carpenter found to be “the most beautiful land in all the world.” It is now on the press and will be followed in rapid succession by additional volumes until the series is finished.
Carpenter’s World Travels is the only work of its 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 man has visited all parts 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 yet published. They are the fruit of more than thirty years of unparalleled success in writing for the American people. They are 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, of how all that is happening affects us, and why. Carpenter takes his readers to the lands of the news, and makes more real the daily flashes by cable and radio.