Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Australia and the Islands
Frank G. Carpenter
63 chapters · 9 h 18 min · English
Read by MaryAnn, BettyB, JezRSH, Bill Boerst, Andrea Kotzer, Availle
Travel & Geography · Reference
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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)
Chapters
1 Preface 4 min 2 General View of Australia 8 min 3 In Sydney, the New York of Australia 12 min 4 Sheep and Wool in Australia 13 min 5 South Australia and the Great Central Desert -- Adelaide 9 min 6 Gold Mining in Australia -- Ballarat -- Melbourne 7 min 7 A Land of Strange Plants and Animals 13 min 8 Queensland -- The Pearl Fisheries -- The Great Barrier Reef 12 min 9 Among the Aborigines or Native Australians 8 min 10 Western Australia and Tasmania 11 min 11 New Zealand 9 min 12 A Visit to a Meet-freezing Factory 5 min 13 Wellington -- The Hot Springs -- Among the Maoris 12 min 14 New Caledonia and other French Islands 6 min 15 New Guinea 11 min 16 Northeastern New Guinea and Adjacent British Isles 8 min 17 The Fijis and Other British Possessions of the Pacific 10 min 18 Samoa 10 min 19 Our Hawaiian Possessions -- Honolulu 10 min 20 The Industries of the Hawaiian Islands 11 min 21 A Visit to a Volcano 9 min 22 The Island of Guam 8 min 23 General View of the Philippine Islands 13 min 24 Manila, the Capital of the Philippines 13 min 25 Home Life and the Markets 12 min 26 A Trip through the Country -- Rice, Sugar and Tobacco 15 min 27 Through the Mountains of Luzon 10 min 28 The Visayan Islands -- The Hemp Industry 12 min 29 Mindanao and the Moros 8 min 30 The Sulu Archipelago 8 min 31 Borneo 14 min 32 The Dutch East Indies 11 min 33 Batavia, the Dutch Capital 7 min 34 The Natives of Java 11 min 35 Some Industries of Java 11 min 36 Sumatra 14 min 37 Singapore 12 min 38 Ceylon 9 min 39 Mauritius and Reunion 5 min 40 Madagascar -- The East Coast 6 min 41 The Hovas and the Central Plateau 11 min 42 Among the Sakalavas 3 min 43 Zanzibar and Other East African Islands 6 min 44 West African Islands -- St. Helena 4 min 45 The Cape Verde and Canary Archipelagoes 7 min 46 The Madeiras and the Azores 7 min 47 The Balearic Isles 5 min 48 Corsica and Elba 4 min 49 Sardinia and Sicily 7 min 50 Malta and the Grecian Isles 5 min 51 Crete, Rhodes, and Cyprus 5 min 52 The West Indies -- General View 4 min 53 The Lesser Antilles 11 min 54 General View of Porto Rico -- A Walk through San Juan 9 min 55 Across Porto Rico 12 min 56 Haiti, the Island of the Two Black Republics 12 min 57 Jamaica 8 min 58 Cuba, the Pearl of the Antilles 8 min 59 Havana 7 min 60 On the Sugar and Tobacco Plantations 5 min 61 The Bahamas and the Bermudas 7 min 62 The Islands of Ice and Snow 9 min 63 Islands around and about South America 6 min
