Birdseye Views of Far Lands
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Introduction and Acknowledgment
4:30 -
The Land of Opposites - China
14:32 -
The Pearl of the Orient - Philippines
16:47 -
The Country America Opened to Civilization - Japan
15:55 -
The Transformation of a Nation - Korea
15:08 -
A Great Unknown Land - Manchuria
17:57 -
The Land of Sorrow - Siberia
17:19 -
The Home of Bolshevism - Russia
15:55 -
The Nation That Conquers the Sea - Holland
13:00 -
The Nation That the World Honors - Belgium
14:06 -
A Glimpse of America's Friend - France
12:06 -
Some Impressions of the Great Peace Conference
12:15 -
The Nightmare of Europe - Alsace-Lorraine
10:12 -
The Home of the Passion Play - Oberammergau
15:36 -
The Country Where the War Started - Servia
16:23 -
A World-Famous Land - Palestine
13:17 -
A World-Famous City - Jerusalem
13:12 -
A World-Famous River - The Jordan
12:23 -
The Playground of Moses - Egypt
14:44 -
A Country With a Thousand Rivers - Venezuela
11:59 -
A Land of Great Industries - Brazil
15:01 -
Uruguay and Paraguay
13:02 -
The Wonderful Argentine Republic
13:25 -
Yankeedom of South America - Chile
14:05 -
The Switzerland of South America - Bolivia
10:53 -
The Land of Mystery - Peru
12:19 -
The World's Great Crossroad - Panama Canal
13:41 -
The Seven Wonders of the World
13:39
Birdseye Views of Far Lands (1922) is a public domain work.
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An imagined view from an aeroplane provides the starting point for James T. Nichols's survey of distant countries. Published in 1922, the volume moves through China, Japan, Korea, European nations, Palestine, Egypt and South America in short geographical chapters. Nichols combines accounts of his visits with descriptions of local industries, farming, buildings and customs, often comparing unfamiliar places with features of the United States.
The opening chapter credits China with inventions and engineering achievements, from paper and printing to canals. Later passages turn to the wood carvers and religious theater of Oberammergau, then to small farms, plum orchards and arrangements for helping neighbors in Serbia. These changes of scale, from national resources to village practices, make the book useful for readers interested in how an American traveler described the world a century ago. Its judgments also reflect the assumptions of that period.
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- James T. Nichols
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