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