Carpenter's World Travels. France to Scandinavia

A travelogue through the countries of France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden for young and old alike. Interesting big cities and lesser known areas that provide a glimpse of Europe nearly 100 years ago.

By : Frank G. Carpenter (1855 - 1924)

Frank George Carpenter was an author, photographer, lecturer, collector of photographs. Carpenter was a writer of standard geography textbooks and lecturer on geography, and wrote a series of books called Carpenter's World Travels which were very popular between 1915 and 1930.

01 - Just a Note Before We Start 02 - A Modern Columbus 03 - Our Mortgage on France 04 - Through Normandy by Motor Car 05 - How France Was Made New 06 - Bringing Back the Coal Mines 07 - American Footsteps on French Battlefields 08 - Paris at Work 09 - Shops Large and Small 10 - How Paris Keeps House 11 - The Servant Problem in France 12 - Restaurants and Cafes - The Halles 13 - A Ghost that Frightens the French 14 - Increasing the Baby Crop 15 - Among the Farmers 16 - The City of Silk 17 - No Sluggards Need Apply 18 - Automobiling through Belgium 19 - From Liege to Ypres 20 - Snapshots in Flanders 21 - A Visit to the Coal Pits 22 - Antwerp and Brussels 23 - Holland from an Airplane 24 - Through the Canals to Rotterdam 25 - Where the Mayflower Pilgrims Prayed 26 - The Queen and her Realm 27 - Around About the Zuider Zee 28 - Diamond Cutting in Amsterdam 29 - A Sane Nation in the Madhouse of Europe 30 - Copenhagen, the Gate to the Baltic 31 - Where the Farmer is King 32 - How They Do It in Denmark 33 - The Helpful Hen and the Cooperative Cow 34 - The Alaska of Europe 35 - In Christiania 36 - The Land of the Midnight Farm 37 - Norwegian Woods and Waters 38 - An Island City of the North 39 - Industrial Sweden