Carpenter's World Travels: Familiar Talks about Countries and Peoples, Complete in Twenty Volumes: Alaska: Our Northern Wonderland; Through the Philippines and Hawaii; Canada and Newfoundland; Mexico; Lands of the Caribbean: The Canal Zone, Panama, Costa…

Complete in twenty hardcover volumes. The full travelogues of itinerant traveler, photographer, and author Frank G. Carpenter. This was among the most extensive travelogues in print at the time, and opened the eyes of Americans to an entire world of landscapes and cultures. An important set, and not often found complete. Numerous illustrations and photographs in each volume, several maps. Original maroon pebbled cloth, gilt titles & rules, gilt page ridges. Includes: Carpenter's World Travels: Familiar Talks about Countries and Peoples, Complete in Twenty Volumes: Alaska: Our Northern Wonderland; Through the Philippines and Hawaii; Canada and Newfoundland; Mexico; Lands of the Caribbean: The Canal Zone, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Santo Domingo, Porto Rico, and the Virgin Islands; The British Isles and the Baltic States: England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Irish Free State, Germany, Poland, Latvia, Russia, Esthonia, and Finland; France to Scandinavia: France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden; From Tangier to Tripoli: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Tripoli, and the Sahara; The Tail of the Hemisphere: Chile and Argentina; The Alps, the Danube, and the Near East: Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Rumania, Italy, Greece, Turkey; Lands of the Andes and the Desert; Cairo to Kisumu: Egypt - The Sudan - Kenya Colony; Java and the East Indies: Java, Sumatra, Celebes, The Moluccas, New Guinea, Borneo, and the Malay Peninsula; Uganda to the Cape: Uganda, Zanzibar, Tanganyika Territory, Mozambique, Rhodesia, Union of South Africa, The Holy Land and Syria; Japan and Korea; China; Australia, New Zealand and Some Islands of the South Seas; Along the Parana and the Amazon: Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil; From Bangkok to Bombay: Siam, French Indo-China, Burma, Hindustan.