Greatest Wonders of the World

by Esther Singleton

46 chapters10h 50mEnglish1900

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A selection of descriptions of famous, and not so famous, natural beauty spots, as described by various travelers of the age. Travelers include William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens, Sir Richard F. Burton and Alexandre Dumas. - Summary by LynneT

Chapters (46)

1The Blue Grotto of Capri by Alexandre Dumas

565

2Mount Blanc and Chamouni by Percy Bysshe Shelley

838

3The Dead Sea by Pierre Loti

940

4Mount Vesuvius by Charles Dickens

1954

5The Falls of the Rhine by Victor Hugo

676

6In Arctic and Antarctic Seas I. by Lord Dufferin

684

7In Arctic and Antarctic Seas II. by W. G. Burn Murdoch

293

8The Desert of Sahara by Eugène Fromentin

833

9Fingal’s Cave I. by Sir Walter Scott

619

10Fingal’s Cave II. by John Keats

395

11In the Himalayas by G. W. Steevens

884

12Niagara Falls I. by Anthony Trollope

810

13Niagara Falls II. by Charles Dickens.

346

14Fuji-San by Sir Edwin Arnold

929

15The Cedars of Lebanon by Alphonse de Lamartine

461

16The Giant’s Causeway by William Makepeace Thackeray

1116

17The Great Glacier of the Selkirks by Douglas Sladen

635

18Mauna Loa by Lady Brassey

1188

19Trollhätta by Hans Christian Andersen

560

20The Grand Canyon of the Colorado by C. F. Gordon-Cumming

475

21The Rock of Gibraltar by Augustus J. C. Hare

489

22Thingvalla by Lord Dufferin

854

23Land’s End and Logan Rock by John Ayrton Paris

856

24Mount Hekla by Sir Richard F. Burton

1080

25Victoria Falls by David Livingstone

1054

26The Dragon-Tree of Orotava by Alexander von Humboldt

490

27Mount Shasta by J. W. Boddam-Wheatham

626

28The Lagoons of Venice by John Ruskin

951

29The Cataracts of the Nile by Amelia B. Edwards

777

30In the Alps by Théophile Gautier

520

31The Vale of Kashmir by Andrew Wilson

874

32The Lake of Pitch by Charles Kingsley

840

33The Lachine Rapids by Douglas Sladen

414

34Lake Rotorua by H. R. Haweis

719

35The Big Trees of California by C. F. Gordon-Cumming

1008

36Gersoppa Falls by W. M. Yool

653

37Etna by Alexandre Dumas

888

38Pike’s Peak and the Garden of the Gods by Iza Duffus Hardy

549

39The Great Geysir of Iceland by Sir Richard F. Burton

719

40The Rapids of the Danube by William Beattie

784

41The Mammoth Cave by Bayard Taylor

1298

42Stromboli by Alexandre Dumas

656

43The High Woods by Charles Kingsley

2297

44The Yo-semité Valley by C. F. Gordon-Cumming

1819

45The Golden Horn by Alphonse de Lamartine

1080

46The Yellowstone by Rudyard Kipling

1553

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