Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
by Jewett C. Gilson
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Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter I. The Wealth of the Arid Southwest
- Chapter II. The Grand Canyon of the Colorado
- Chapter III. Yellowstone Park
- Chapter IV. Two Prehistoric Cemeteries—Giant Reptiles and Giant Trees
- Chapter V. Death Valley
- Chapter VI. The Mineral Wealth of the Andes
- Chapter VII. The Czar's Greater Domain
- Chapter VIII. The Mystic Highlands of Asia
- Chapter IX. The Primal Home of the Saracen
- Chapter X. The Sahara
- Chapter XI. Polar Regions—The Conquest of the Arctic
- Chapter XII. Polar Regions—Antarctica
- Chapter XIII. Iceland, the Maid of the North
- Chapter XIV. Greenland
- Chapter XV. Where the Two Great Oceans Meet
- Chapter XVI. Reclaimable Swamp Regions
- Chapter XVII. Strange Rock Formations—Natural Bridges
- Chapter XVIII. Strange Rock Formations—Table Mountain of California
- Chapter XIX. Strange Rock Formations—Gibraltar
- Chapter XX. The Baku Oil Fields
- Chapter XXI. The South African Diamond Fields
- Chapter XXII. The Islands of the Pacific
- Chapter XXIII. Australia
- Chapter XXIV. The Great Barrier Reef
- Chapter XXV. The Gold Fields of Australia
- Chapter XXVI. Tasmania
- Chapter XXVII. New Zealand
- Chapter XXVIII. Samoa and Fiji
- Chapter XXIX. The Hawaiian Islands
- Chapter XXX. Guam
- Chapter XXXI. The Philippine Islands
- Chapter XXXII. The Dutch East Indies—Java
- Chapter XXXIII. The Dutch East Indies—Sumatra and Celebes
- Chapter XXXIV. Borneo and Papua