APPLETONS' WORLD SERIES, 



A New Geographical Library. 



Edited by H. J. Mackinder, M. A., Student of Christ Church, Reader in 

 Geography in the University of Oxford, Principal of Reading College. Each, 

 8vo. Cloth. 



The series will consist of twelve volumes, each being an essay descriptive 

 of a great natural region, its marked physical features, and the life of the 

 people. Together, the volumes will give a complete account of the world, 

 more especially as the field of human activity. 



NO W READ Y. 



Britain and the British Seas. By the Editor. With numerous 

 Maps and Diagrams. $2.00 net ; postage, 19 cents additional. 



The Nearer East. By D. G. Hogarth, M. A., Fellow of Mag- 

 dalen College, Oxford ; Director of the British School at Athens ; 

 Author of " A Wandering Scholar in the Levant." |;2.oo net ; 

 postage, 17 cents additional. 



IN PREPARATION. 

 CENTRAL EUROPE. By Dr. Joseph Partsch, Professor of Geography 



in the University of Breslau. 

 INDIA. By Sir T. Hungerford Holdich, K. C. I. E., C. B., R. E., 



Superintendent of Indian Frontier Surveys ; author of numerous papers 



on Military Surveying and Geographical subjects. 

 SCANDINAVIA AND THE ARCTIC OCEAN. By Sir Clements R. 



Markham, K. C. B., F. R. S., President of the Royal Geographical 



Society. 

 THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. By Prince Kropotkin, author of the articles 



" Russia" and " Siberia" in the Encyclopcedia Britatinica. 

 AFRICA. By J. Scott Keltie, Secretary of the Royal Geogiaphical 



Society; Editor of The Statesman's Year-Book ; Author of "The 



Partition of Africa." 

 THE FARTHER EAST. By Archibald Little. 

 WESTERN EUROPE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN. By Elisee 



Reclus, author of the " Nouvelle Gcographie Universelle." 

 AUSTRALASIA AND ANTARCTICA. By Dr. H. O. Forbes, Curator 



of the Liverpool Museum, late Curator of the Christ Church Museum, N. 



Z. ; Author of "A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago." 

 NORTH AMERICA. By Prof. Israel Cook Russell, M.S., C. E., 



LL. D., Professor of Geology in the University of Michigan ; author of 



numerous works on geological and physiographical subjects. 

 SOUTH AMERICA. By John Casper Branner, Ph. D., LL. D., 



Professor of Geology, and sometime Vice-President Leiand Stanford 



Junior University ; author of many publications on Brazil, Geology, 



and Physical Geography. 



Maps by J. G. Bartholomew. 



D. A PPL ETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK. 



