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Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Europe

by Frank G. CARPENTER (1855 - 1924)

The Scottish Highlands - Edinburgh

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.

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Listen next episodes of Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Europe:
A Country Below the Sea , Among the Mohammedans , Belgium - The Busiest Workshop of Europe , Berlin , Commercial and Manufacturing France , Down the Volga to the Caspian Sea , How England is Governed - A Visit to Parliament , How France is Governed , Hungary and the Hungarians , In Constantinople , In Modern Greece , In Odessa - General View of Russia , In St. Petersburg , In the Capital of Austria-Hungary , In the Cities of Spain , In the Dutch Cities - Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague , In the German Empire , London - The Commercial Center of the World , Manufacturing England , Moscow - Commercial and Manufacturing Russia , Naples and Mount Vesuvius , Northern Italy , On the Lower Danube from Budapest to the Black Sea , Paris - The Most Beautiful City in the World , Rome, the Capital of Italy , Rural and Manufacturing Germany , Rural England , Rural France , Rural Spain , Switzerland - The Alps , The Emperor - How Germany is Governed , The Kingdom of Portugal , The Land of the Danes , The Russian Peasants - A Nation of Villages , The Seaports of Germany , The Swiss People and How They are Governed , The Upper Danube - From Ulm to Vienna , Travels in Norway and Sweden , Up the Rhine to Switzerland , Venice , Where the Sun Shines at Midnight