SEEING THE WORLD
with
Frank G. Carpenter
Choosing a travelling companion is one of life’s most trying moments. The man with whom we feel we can be quite happy throughout a journey—whose tastes, interests, and viewpoint are like our own—is often hard to find.
Millions of Americans have found Frank G. Carpenter their ideal fellow traveller. Reading Carpenter has meant for them seeing the world, and with him they have journeyed to all parts of the globe. He never bores, preaches, or propagandizes, but tells his readers what they want to know, shows them what they want to see, and makes them feel that they are there.
In order to extend this opportunity of seeing the world with Carpenter, Doubleday, Page & Company have arranged to publish CARPENTER’S WORLD TRAVELS, the story of his three hundred thousand miles of journeys over the globe, of which this book, “The Holy Land and Syria” is the first volume. Succeeding volumes to be published immediately, include:
- From Tangier to Tripoli, Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, Tripoli, and the Sahara.
- Alaska, Our Northern Wonderland.
- The End of the Hemisphere, Chile and Argentina.
- From Cairo to Kisumu.
- Egypt, the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and British East Africa,
and twenty other volumes, covering the world.
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. Carpenter makes his readers see what he sees, and they feel they are on the spot with him.
This is the only work of its kind. No other single author has visited all the countries of the world and written on the spot, 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 world-wide 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 through the medium of their greatest newspapers. They are a fitting climax to Mr. Carpenter’s 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 the world, a knowledge of its countries 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.