Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
Jewett C. Gilson, a former superintendent of schools in Oakland, California, wrote Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania in 1913 for a series of geographical readers for schools. Its first part argues that the regions men call waste have their uses and their riches, and tours them: the arid Southwest, the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone, Death Valley, the mineral wealth of the Andes, Siberia, the highlands of Asia, Arabia and the Sahara, the Arctic and Antarctic, Iceland and Greenland, the swamps and the strange rock formations of the American West. The second part surveys Oceania, including the Philippines, Java, Sumatra, Borneo and Papua. It is illustrated with photographs and written for young readers. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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