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Strange Peoples

Chapter 35: LIST OF BOOKS REGARDING STRANGE PEOPLES.
By Frederick Starr
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About This Book

This reader presents concise, illustrated sketches of numerous human groups around the world for young readers, explaining physical types, geographic distribution, and distinctive customs across continents. Beginning with Arctic and American peoples and proceeding through Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Pacific, each short chapter describes characteristic features, material culture, and daily life while urging respect for cultural difference. The text emphasizes patterns of racial types and migration, supplies photographs, drawings, and a world map, and closes with a bibliography for further study.

LIST OF BOOKS REGARDING STRANGE PEOPLES.

This list makes no pretension to completeness; a few only of the many books of the kind are mentioned. Those with a prefixed asterisk will be useful to teachers; those without will interest children; those followed by an asterisk have directly contributed to this book in reading matter or illustration.

  • Arnold: Japonica.*
  • Batcheller: The Ainu of Japan.*
  • Bramhall: The Wee Ones of Japan.*
  • *Brinton: Races and Peoples.
  • Du Chaillu: The Land of the Dwarfs.*
  • *Deniker: The Races of Man.
  • Doolittle: Social Life of the Chinese.*
  • Ellis: Polynesian Researches.*
  • Fielde: A Corner of Cathay.
  • Hearn: Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan.
  • Huc: Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China.*
  • *Keane: Ethnology.
  • *Keane: Man; Past and Present.
  • Lane: The Modern Egyptians.
  • Leonowens: The English Governess at the Siamese Court.
  • *Lowell: Chosön.*
  • *Lubbock: Origin of Civilization.
  • *Lummis: The Land of Poco Tiempo.*
  • Marshall: Phrenologist among the Todas.*
  • *Meyer: Album von Philippinen-Typen.*
  • Miln: Little Folk of Many Lands.*
  • Nansen: Eskimo Life.
  • *Peschel: The Races of Man.
  • De Quatrefages: The Pygmies.
  • *Ratzel: History of Mankind.
  • *Ratzel: Völkerkunde.*
  • *Réclus: Primitive Folk.
  • Rockhill: The Land of the Lamas.
  • Schweinfurth: The Heart of Africa.*
  • Smith: Chinese Characteristics.
  • Stanley: In Darkest Africa.*
  • *Turner: Samoa.
  • *Tylor: Anthropology.*
  • *Verneau: Les Races Humaines.*
  • Wallace: The Malay Archipelago.
  • Ward: India and the Hindoos.*
  • Williams: Fiji and the Fijians.*