Front matter

Transcriber's note: The original publication has been replicated faithfully except as listed here.

Appletons' World Series THE REGIONS OF THE WORLD EDITED BY H. J. MACKINDER, M.A. Reader in Geography in the University of Oxford Each complete in One Volume, Large 8vo.

BRITAIN AND THE BRITISH SEAS

By the

Editor

WESTERN EUROPE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN

By

Elisée Reclus

CENTRAL EUROPE

By

Joseph Partsch

, Ph.D.

SCANDINAVIA AND THE ARCTIC REGION

By Sir

Clements R. Markham

, K.C.B.,

F.R.S., President Royal Geog. Soc.

THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE

By

Prince Kropotkin

THE NEARER EAST

By

D. G. Hogarth

, M.A.

AFRICA

By

J. Scott Keltie

, LL.D., Sec. R. G. S.

INDIA

By Colonel Sir

Thomas Holdich

, K.C.I.E.,

C.B., R.E.

THE FARTHER EAST

By

Archibald Little

NORTH AMERICA

By

Israel C. Russell

, LL.D.

SOUTH AMERICA

By

John C. Branner

, LL.D.

AUSTRALASIA AND ANTARCTICA

By

H. O. Forbes

, LL.D.

Fig. 1.—North America. From a photograph of a relief map by Victor and Cosmos Mindeleff. Scales of original: Horizontal, 120 miles to 1 inch; vertical, 40,000 feet to 1 inch: proportion, 1:16.

NORTH AMERICA

BY