Schlesinger, Arthur Meier

Text originally published in "National Geographic" discusses the geography, history, and people of the continent of Australia at the beginning of the twentieth century.

A panoramic study of the history of America details the exploration, settlement, wars, social and cultural evolution, and emergence as a superpower.

Discusses the rise of industrialism and its radical effects on the national economy during the Jacksonian period.

Reprints a series of reports and photographs that appeared in "National Geographic" magazine in the early twentieth century, in which explorer Hiram Bingham details his discovery of the legendary Inca city of Macchu Picchu.

Reprints reports and photographs that appeared in "National Geographic" magazine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which tell of the discoveries made by archaeologists on some of their first investigations of ancient Mayan and Aztec civilizations.

Articles originally published in "National Geographic" chart the expansion of travel by automobile and railroad in the 1920s and its effects on American society.

Reprints an article and accompanying photographs about life in Maghreb in the years before the First World War, which first appeared in "National Geographic" magazine in January 1914.