Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
by Jewett C. Gilson
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About this eBook
- Author
- Gilson, Jewett C. (Jewett Castello), 1844-1926
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Roger Frank and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HC: Social sciences: Economic history and conditions, Special topics
- Subject
- Oceania -- Economic conditions
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 23546
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23546
- Release Date
- November 19, 2007
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.PREFACE
- 2.Illustrations — WEALTH OF THE WORLD'S WASTE PLACES AND OCEANIA
- 3.PART I
- 4.INTRODUCTION
- 5.CHAPTER I — THE WEALTH OF THE ARID SOUTHWEST
- 6.CHAPTER II — THE GRAND CANYON OF THE COLORADO
- 7.CHAPTER III — YELLOWSTONE PARK
- 8.CHAPTER IV — TWO PREHISTORIC CEMETERIES—GIANT REPTILES AND GIANT TREES
- 9.CHAPTER V — DEATH VALLEY
- 10.CHAPTER VI — THE MINERAL WEALTH OF THE ANDES
- 11.CHAPTER VII — THE CZAR'S GREATER DOMAIN
- 12.CHAPTER VIII — THE MYSTIC HIGHLANDS OF ASIA
- 13.CHAPTER IX — THE PRIMAL HOME OF THE SARACEN
- 14.CHAPTER X — THE SAHARA
- 15.CHAPTER XI — POLAR REGIONS—THE CONQUEST OF THE ARCTIC
- 16.CHAPTER XII — POLAR REGIONS—ANTARCTICA
- 17.CHAPTER XIII — ICELAND, THE MAID OF THE NORTH
- 18.CHAPTER XIV — GREENLAND
- 19.CHAPTER XV — WHERE THE TWO GREAT OCEANS MEET
- 20.CHAPTER XVI — RECLAIMABLE SWAMP REGIONS
- 21.CHAPTER XVII — STRANGE ROCK FORMATIONS—NATURAL BRIDGES
- 22.CHAPTER XVIII — STRANGE ROCK FORMATIONS—TABLE MOUNTAIN OF CALIFORNIA
- 23.CHAPTER XIX — STRANGE ROCK FORMATIONS—GIBRALTAR
- 24.CHAPTER XX — THE BAKU OIL FIELDS
- 25.CHAPTER XXI — THE SOUTH AFRICAN DIAMOND FIELDS
- 26.CHAPTER XXII — THE ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC
- 27.CHAPTER XXIII — AUSTRALIA
- 28.CHAPTER XXIV — THE GREAT BARRIER REEF
- 29.CHAPTER XXV — THE GOLD FIELDS OF AUSTRALIA
- 30.CHAPTER XXVI — TASMANIA
- 31.CHAPTER XXVII — NEW ZEALAND
- 32.CHAPTER XXVIII — SAMOA AND FIJI
- 33.CHAPTER XXIX — THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
- 34.CHAPTER XXX — GUAM
- 35.CHAPTER XXXI — THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
- 36.CHAPTER XXXII — THE DUTCH EAST INDIES—JAVA
- 37.CHAPTER XXXIII — THE DUTCH EAST INDIES—SUMATRA AND CELEBES
- 38.CHAPTER XXXIV — BORNEO AND PAPUA
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