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Title: Australia, New Zealand and some islands of the South seas

Australia, New Zealand, Thursday island, the Samoas, New Guinea, the Fijis, and the Tongas

Author: Frank G. Carpenter

Release date: September 24, 2024 [eBook #74473]

Language: English

Original publication: Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924

Credits: Alan, Peter Becker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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CARPENTER’S
WORLD TRAVELS

Familiar Talks About Countries
and Peoples

WITH THE AUTHOR ON THE SPOT AND
THE READER IN HIS HOME, BASED
ON THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND
MILES OF TRAVEL
OVER THE GLOBE

“READING CARPENTER IS SEEING THE WORLD”

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IN AUSTRALIA

The “great white continent” in the midst of the teeming coloured races of the Orient, our Anglo-Saxon cousins are building a new empire of the Pacific.