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Vol.1: Chapters: 1. At School the World Over; 2. The Redskins of To-Day; 3. Merrie England; 4. The Men of the Blow Pipe; 5. The Desert Rangers; 6. The Land of the Incas; 7. Men and Their Boats; 8. New York the Wonder City; 9. The Wonder of the Waterfall; 10. Sunshine Isles and Savages; 11. A Glimpse of Turkistan; 12. The Great White South; 13. The Colour of Cairo; 14. Through Three Forbidden Lands; 15. Lands of the Sugar Cane; 16. Among the Pueblo Indians; 17. Old Peoples of a New Nation; 18. Lebanon and the Druses; 19. Constantinople, the Coveted City; 20. British Africa from West to East; 21. Mighty Waterways Made by Man.
Vol.2: 1. The City That Ruled the World; 2. Ceylon the Isle of Jewels; 3. Life Among the Maoris; 4. The Land of the Dragon; 5. Keepers of the Peace; 6. The First British Colony; 7. In the Garden of Eden; 8. "Donkey-work"; 9. Australia's Magic makers; 10. Cuba and the Bubans; 11. Folk of a Water Logged Country; 12. The Lovely Lant of Kashmir; 13. Where Water is Wealth; 14. Isles of Unrest; 15. Wonderful Venice; 16. My Lord the Elephant; 17. Ireland North and South; 18. Its Peasants and its Townsfolk; 19. Through Sunny Spain; 20. Mysterious Madagascar; 21. Strange Homes and Queer Houses.
Vol.3: 1. India the Wonderland of the East; 2. Food From the Waters; 3. Lonely Islands of the Atlantic; 4. The Home of the Goths; 5. A Look at London; 6. The Lands of El Dorado; 7. Max's Oldest Industry; 8. Bonnie Scotland; 9. City and Jungle in Malaya; 10. The Paradise of the Pacific; 11. Where a Living Buddha Reigns; 12. The Greeks of Today; 13. England's Countryside; 14. Pedlars and Hawkers; 15. Far Land of Treasure and Romance; 16. India's Millions; 17. The Fire Mountains; 18. Greater Rumania; 19. The Hunter and his wills; 20. The City of the Arabian Nights; 21. Hats and Their Wearers; 22. Britannia Minor; 23. Through Six Republic; 24. A Land of Ancient Grandeur.
Vol.4: 1. In Cherry Blosson Land; 2. A Link Between east and West; 3. Spinners and Weaners; 4. In Unknown six Kiang; 5. The Pleasant Land of France; 6. Ancient Rivals of the Far East; 7. Playtime the World Over; 8. Lands of the Silver River; 9. India's Sacred Places; 10. A New Stte with a Glorious Past; 11. Shepherds and Their Flocks; 12. The Jewel of the Mediterranean; 13. The Toy States of Europe; 14. Morocco and the Moors; 15. The Potter and His Clay; 16. Along the Andes; 17. The Vikings of Today; 18. The World's most Scattered Race; 19. Oxford and Cambridge.
Vol.5: 1. People of Sunny Italy; 2. In the Heart of Africa; 3. A City of Enchantment; 4. What Other People Eat; 5. Through Tropic Fairylands; 6. In Three New Republics; 7. The Land of the Morning Calm; 8. Some Old Walled Towns; 9. Egypt's Wonders of the Past; 10. Gypsies in Many lands; 11. The Indies of the West; 12. America's other united States; 13. Land of the White Elephant; 14. The German Homeland; 15. The Great Waste Land; 16. A Peep at Peking; 17. Islands of Fire and Ice; 18. The Strength of Running Water; 19. Switzerland and the Swiss; 20. The Land of a Thousand Lakes; 21. The Pearl of the China Seas.
Vol.6: 1. The Folk of Yugo Slavia; 2. Relics of Ancient Man; 3. Land of the Cymry; 4. Across the Great Dominion; 5. The Gift of the Nile; 6. Islands of the Middle Sea; 7. Russians of Europe and of Asia; 8. The Changing Est; 9. How People Wear Their Hair; 10. Remnant of a Mighty empire; 11. "Twixt the Desert and the Sea'; 12. Patagonia and the "Land of Fire"; 13. A Britain of the Southern Seas; 14. Where Beauty Reigns in Ruins; 15. Borneo the Isle of Summer; 16. The Old Home of the Sea-Rovers; 17. From Cape Town to the Zambezi; 18. Fleming and Walloon; 19. The Sphinx and the Pyramid; 20. Where the Negro Rules; 21. The World's Greatest Republic; 22. In the Holy land today; 23. The Afghans at Home; General Index. |
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| This wonderful work, in six volumes, is a most thrilling yet most fascinating story of the lands and peoples of the world. These are spread all over the globe and every one of them is somebody's homeland dearest to him because he was born on its soil, ate its food, drank its water and breathed its air. He can sing the glory of his motherland as Shakespeare did of his in these work: this royal throne of kings... this earth of majesty, this seat of Mars.....this other Eden, demi-paradise.... This happy breed of men, etc. etc. But if we feel like this about our own homeland, we must grow to learn that every land on earth is somebody's dear and sweet home. And this is what is contained within the covers of the six volumes of this great and peerless work. It is not only a book of time as well as of all the marvelous places on the earth but also unfolds before our eyes a vast picture gallery, depicting the illustrated story of the rise of man out of darkness into light. 'As a book sets down the thoughts of men so that they do not die, so photography stores up the vision of the passing world, takes up the scene of a passing hour so that those who were not present may see it when they will and where they will'. It has been a long march from the scratching of a mammoth's head on a cave wall to the charming photographys of the life of the world as seen in this marvelous book. The book describes in a colourful variety the vast family of man, whose number is expected to exceed three billions by the century, in variegated colours and multi-faceted activity in every stage of human development from the most primitive to the most modern depicting the supreme achievements of our age of scientific miracles, as found in all climes, countries and continents of the world. Through its pages we see the stone age and the nuclear age side by side, men still making fire with flints, still making worst religious fanaticism and bigotry to perpetuate their hold and men with the pride or pets, philosophers and scientists with astonishing powers in their hand. To quote Editor's own inimitable words, 'we have in this book one of the things the world most badly needs in these days when there is growing up the generation whose business it is to save mankind. We are marching to a friendlier and happier world, a world of love in place of hate, of peace instead of war and one thing is needful-an understanding of each other. To grow up knowing our neighbours in the world is the surest way to peace… these volumes contains an unrivalled account of human society as it exists in all parts of the world which belongs to the entire human family and as such they should serve as a unifying bond for us all. Such a monumental work should therefore be an indispensable addition to all the libraries pubic and private not only in India but all over the world. It should also be the proud possession of book lovers. There cannot be a better gift than its complete set which parents and elders should present to their children and their wards. |
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