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ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER TWO HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS MADE FOR THIS WORK BY THE BEST AMERICAN ARTISTS.
Here are some of the countries and areas covered: Alaska, Tibet, the northern Polar regions (including speculation about Symmes theory of a Hollow Earth), the Malay Archipelago, South America, Egypt, Africa (possibly largest section), South Pacific, the Philippines, Japan, Russia and Siberia, Cuba. Features world geography, travel, essays, and history.
Blurb: “AN ALL-EMBRACING HISTORY OF A CENTURY OF EXPLORATION AND DISCOVERY.
Recording in graphic narrative the strange experiences, thrilling adventures, and great achievements of the most famous travelers. Treated under proper divisions and classifications,
and embracing, in expositional completeness,
All the Least Known Couniries of the Globe.
A condensation of the world's best books of research
among savage men and animals of darkest lands,
being descriptive of peoples, customs, superstitions,
curious creatures, and Wonderful Things Seen by Famous Explorers
IN TROPIC REGIONS AND ARCTIC CLIMES.
The whole comprising an encyclopedia of geographical knowledge, representing the
civilization and heroic accomplishments of one hundred years.
BY J. W. BUBL - Author of " The Story of Man," * Exile Life in Siberia," " Beautiful Paris," "America's Wonderlands," " Sea and Land." " The Living World."
The Beautiful Story," * Manual of Self-Heip."