Alps, the Danube and the Near East
by Frank G. Carpenter
About this book
Journeying through many countries including Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Switzerland and Greece, the author gives an in-depth account of many aspects of the culture of the times and the people of the regions. (Summary by Betty B)
Chapters (37)
1Introducing Ourselves
2At the World's Peace Capital
3Europe's Oldest Republic
4The Beehives of the Alps
5From the Top of the Jungfrau
6Venice
7Over the Plains of Lombardy to Milan
8The Eternal City
9The Grandeur that was Rome
10In Czechoslovakia
11Motoring through Bohemia
12A Nation of Athletes
13From Prague to Vienna
14Vienna
15Austria, the Republic
16In the Footsteps of the Hapsburgs
17The Country of the Magyars
18Budapest, Where East and West Meet
19Bread Lands of the Danube
20Belgrade
21The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
22Peasant Maids and Patchwork Farms
23Athens
24The Kings of Greece
25Motoring through the Land of Homer
26Digging Up Old Greece
27Seen in Sofia
28Bulgaria and Its King
29A National Labor Army
30Greater Rumania
31In Rumania's Oil Fields
32At the Queen's Table
33Constantinople
34The New Woman in Turkey
35Here and There in Stamboul
36Fanatics of Islam
37The Passing of the Sultans
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