Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Europe
by Frank G. Carpenter
About this book
The book tries to give its young readers a living knowledge of Europe. The author conducts tours through various parts of Europe giving a glimpse of the people and their lives and livelihoods. He includes as well information on the natural resources and physical geography of those many countries. Summary by BettyB and preface.
Chapters (46)
1 Across the Atlantic to Europe
2 Southern Ireland
3 Central and Northern Ireland
4 Glasgow and the Clyde
5 The Scottish Highlands - Edinburgh
6 Rural England
7 Manufacturing England
8 London - The Commercial Center of the World
9 How England is Governed - A Visit to Parliament
10 Rural France
11 Commercial and Manufacturing France
12 Paris - The Most Beautiful City in the World
13 How France is Governed
14 Belgium - The Busiest Workshop of Europe
15 A Country Below the Sea
16 In the Dutch Cities - Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague
17 The Land of the Danes
18 Where the Sun Shines at Midnight
19 Travels in Norway and Sweden
20 In the German Empire
21 The Seaports of Germany
22 Berlin
23 The Emperor - How Germany is Governed
24 Rural and Manufacturing Germany
25 Up the Rhine to Switzerland
26 Switzerland - The Alps
27 The Swiss People and How They are Governed
28 The Upper Danube - From Ulm to Vienna
29 In the Capital of Austria-Hungary
30 Hungary and the Hungarians
31 On the Lower Danube from Budapest to the Black Sea
32 In Odessa - General View of Russia
33 The Russian Peasants - A Nation of Villages
34 In St. Petersburg
35 Moscow - Commercial and Manufacturing Russia
36 Down the Volga to the Caspian Sea
37 In Constantinople
38 Among the Mohammedans
39 In Modern Greece
40 Venice
41 Northern Italy
42 Rome, the Capital of Italy
43 Naples and Mount Vesuvius
44 Rural Spain
45 In the Cities of Spain
46 The Kingdom of Portugal
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