Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Australia and the Islands

Author(s)

• Frank G. Carpenter

The purpose of this book is to give the children who read it a living knowledge of Australia and the chief islands of the world, and especially those which have become colonies or dependencies of the United States. In a personally conducted tour through the eyes of teh author they travel over [these islands], seeing our brown-skinned cousins of the several colonies as they are at home. They learn about the resources of the various islands, and of their value to the United States. They visit the people on the farms and in the factories. They spend some time in the cities and villages, and they explore the wilds, observing the wonders of plant and animal creation. (from the Preface)

1. Preface
2. General View of Australia
3. In Sydney, the New York of Australia
4. Sheep and Wool in Australia
5. South Australia and the Great Central Desert -- Adelaide
6. Gold Mining in Australia -- Ballarat -- Melbourne
7. A Land of Strange Plants and Animals
8. Queensland -- The Pearl Fisheries -- The Great Barrier Reef
9. Among the Aborigines or Native Australians
10. Western Australia and Tasmania
11. New Zealand
12. A Visit to a Meet-freezing Factory
13. Wellington -- The Hot Springs -- Among the Maoris
14. New Caledonia and other French Islands
15. New Guinea
16. Northeastern New Guinea and Adjacent British Isles
17. The Fijis and Other British Possessions of the Pacific
18. Samoa
19. Our Hawaiian Possessions -- Honolulu
20. The Industries of the Hawaiian Islands
21. A Visit to a Volcano
22. The Island of Guam
23. General View of the Philippine Islands
24. Manila, the Capital of the Philippines
25. Home Life and the Markets
26. A Trip through the Country -- Rice, Sugar and Tobacco
27. Through the Mountains of Luzon
28. The Visayan Islands -- The Hemp Industry
29. Mindanao and the Moros
30. The Sulu Archipelago
31. Borneo
32. The Dutch East Indies
33. Batavia, the Dutch Capital
34. The Natives of Java
35. Some Industries of Java
36. Sumatra
37. Singapore
38. Ceylon
39. Mauritius and Reunion
40. Madagascar -- The East Coast
41. The Hovas and the Central Plateau
42. Among the Sakalavas
43. Zanzibar and Other East African Islands
44. West African Islands -- St. Helena
45. The Cape Verde and Canary Archipelagoes
46. The Madeiras and the Azores
47. The Balearic Isles
48. Corsica and Elba
49. Sardinia and Sicily
50. Malta and the Grecian Isles
51. Crete, Rhodes, and Cyprus
52. The West Indies -- General View
53. The Lesser Antilles
54. General View of Porto Rico -- A Walk through San Juan
55. Across Porto Rico
56. Haiti, the Island of the Two Black Republics
57. Jamaica
58. Cuba, the Pearl of the Antilles
59. Havana
60. On the Sugar and Tobacco Plantations
61. The Bahamas and the Bermudas
62. The Islands of Ice and Snow
63. Islands around and about South America