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