Van Loon's geography : the story of the world we live in /
On the inside of the wrapper is a map of the world, drawn by Van Loon. London edition (G.G. Harrap & Company, ltd.) has title: The home of mankind; the story of the world we live in.
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1932.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, |d 1882-1944, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Van Loon's geography : |b the story of the world we live in / |c written and illustrated by Hendrik Willem van Loon. |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Simon and Schuster, |c 1932. | |
| 300 | |a 2 preliminary leaves, ix-xx, 525 pages : |b frontispiece, illustrations, plates (some color), maps ; |c 25 cm | ||
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| 500 | |a On the inside of the wrapper is a map of the world, drawn by Van Loon. | ||
| 500 | |a London edition (G.G. Harrap & Company, ltd.) has title: The home of mankind; the story of the world we live in. | ||
| 520 | |a On the inside of the wrapper is a map of the world, drawn by Van Loon. London edition (G.G. Harrap & Company, ltd.) has title: The home of mankind; the story of the world we live in. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a List of illustrations: The human touch ; Only round objects give round shadows ; Eclipse ; Our speed through space is much faster than that of the fastest cannon-ball ; Those few specsk -- and that is all we know of our universe ; The tides ; The layers of atmosphere ; They keep us warm like so many blankets ; The sun heating the earth ; Rain ; Rainstorms after all are only local affairs ; The crust of the earth is as full of holes as a sponge ; Why not make your own earthquakes? ; The rise and fall of all mountains ; The glaciers in America ; The glaciers in Europe ; If the highest mountains should get dumped into the deepest part of the ocean! ; Hundreds of millions of years ago the continents seem to have been very different from today ; The gulf stream in your kitchen ; How maps became maps ; A Roman map ; Polynesian woven map ; Medieval map ; Church-tower navigation ; The zones ; Are our proud continents perhaps islands of some lighter material which float on the heavier substance of the earth's interior as pieces of cork will float on the water in a basin? | |
| 505 | 8 | |a List of illustrations (continued): Rockall - the top of a submerged continent in the northern Atlantic ; Mountains and seas make excellent natural boundaries ; From animal to man ; Compare the proportions of Greenland and South America on a globe and on a flat map and notice what a difference that makes! ; Greece ; The Mediterranean ; Italy ; The Iberian Peninsula ; A Spanish Canyon ; Gibraltar ; France ; The geology of the Île de France ; The Île de France expressed in the form of saucers ; the Rhine, the Meuse and their delta ; Paris ; From man to mole ; Coal in the making ; Heat ; Switzerland ; The mountain pass ; The conquest of the Barriers ; Germany ; Denmark in relation to Norway and Sweden ; Iceland ; The barren soil of the mountains ; Norway ; And the Gulf Stream did it ; Look at a map of the Arctic and this is all you see ; A polder ; Locks ; The Atlantic, Ireland, England and Europe ; England, Scotland and Ireland ; The factory conquers the farm ; Great Britain is a country of lighthouses ; England enjoys the enormous advantage of being situated in the heart of the land-masses of our planet -- | |
| 505 | 8 | |a List of illustrations (continued): Ireland ; Europe ; The Russian landscape ; The old Russian trade-route ; The old Russia ; The new Russia ; Eastern Siberia ; The great Russian plain ; Asia ; The high plateau of Tibet ; The mountain gap ; The land bridge from Asia to Europe ; Jerusalem ; The distance between the highest mountain top and the lowest ocean depth is 11 1/2 miles or 1/700 of the Earth's diameter ; India ; Rice ; India is full of Indians ; The big Chinese reivers ; The Chinese wall is the only structure made of human hands that would be visible by the astronomers of the moon ; The Grand Canal in China ; Japan ; The old Japan ; The new Japan ; The Dutch East Indies compared to Europe ; Java ; Australia ; Australia's isolation ; Australia is found ; The pearl diver ; New Zealand looks very much like Norway ; The Coral Island ; Africa ; On the way to the slavery coast ; The delta of the Nile ; The water-hole ; The Nile ; Africa | |
| 505 | 8 | |a List of illustrations (continued): Oasis ; Kilimandjaro ; Congo and Niger ; North America ; The Sequoia as historical contemporary ; Greenland ; Newfoundland ; The three discoveries of America ; How America dawned upon Europe ; The Caribbean ; If the Caribbean should run dry ; The first railroad track ; The Mississippi ; Yosemite ; The soil of the Plains ; The interior of a volcano after the outer crust has eroded away remains behind as a solid mountain ; The oldest mountains are by no means the highest ; South America ; The railroad across the Andes ; The Llanos of Venezuela ; Amazon River ; If the Straits of Magellan should run dry ; We have fertilized by far too many of our fields in this way ; What is the answer? | |
| 505 | 8 | |a List of colored and wash illustrations. The will to live ; Space ; Earthquakes ; 50,000,000 B.C. and A.D. 1932 ; The Gulf Stream ; Neighbors ; Ice ; The old conception of the world when the earth was the center of the universe ; The new conception of the world in space ; Wind ; We can only live on the land between the high mountains and the submerged valleys called oceans and seas ; Erosion ; Northern and southern exposure ; What lies underneath the map of the Arctic Ocean ; The dike ; The North Sea ; If the British Channel should run dry ; Europe : the continent of coasts, islands and rivers ; The North Pole ; Cold ; The great Asiatic-European plain ; The total amount of land and water on our planet ; The mountain passes of Asia ; If the Pacific Ocean should run dry ; If the Atlantic Ocean should run dry ; How Japan was made ; The Atlantic and the Pacific ; Australia ; Africa ; The sun on the equator and polar regions -- The Suez Canal ; The desert ; The Zambesi Falls ; Discovery of the South Pole ; North America ; The Panama Canal ; South America ; Waste : the deserted mine. | |
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