Visits in other lands

• Main Author: Atwood, Wallace Walter, 1872-1949
• Other Authors: Goss, Helen Thomas, 1890-, Quennell, Marjorie, 1884- illustrator
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Ginn 1947
• Subjects: Geography > Textbooks > 1945-; eskimo*; Newfoundland; Newfoundland studies; lota
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns2/id/68018

Visits in Other lands Bunga: a jungle boy. Little people of the forest -- A day with Bunga -- How the Negritos hunt -- Moving to a new camp -- Nomads of the forest -- Netwook and Klaya in the far north. Lands of ice, and snow -- In camp with Netsook and Klaya -- An afternoon with the Eskimos -- Summer wanderings -- When winter comes -- Do you know your directions? -- Suvan of the steppe. A Kazak camp -- Herdsmen of the steppe -- On the march -- In winter quarters -- Spring comes to the steppe -- About plans and maps -- Some differences in weather and why -- Simba: a boy of the Congo. A great forest in Africa -- Simba's village -- How Simba's people get food -- Work and play in the great forest -- Pedro of the Andes. A cool land in the warm belt -- At home with Pedro and his family -- Farming in the cool plateau -- Market days and fiestas -- Abdul and Zakia in Egypt. The land of the Nile -- In Abdul's village -- Year-round farming -- An old, old country -- Roshik and Moti in India. The Bengalis and their homeland -- Seeing Roshik's home -- The hot season and the rainy season -- Work and play in the cold season -- Bengali boys and girls -- Sumai and Lota in China. The land where silk-making began -- A village of farming families -- In the rice fields -- As the seasons come and go -- Erik and Inger in Norway. A land of five F's -- The farm by the fjord -- Surprising things about Norway -- Up at the saeter with Erik -- On the farm with Inger -- Work and play in the wintertime -- Some things to talk over -- The earth and our hemisphere. The world pattern of land and water -- Our neighbors to the south -- A list of books for outside reading -- Index and pronouncing word list Illustrations by Marjorie Quennell -- verso.; Commonly known as The Bunga Book; Used in Newfoundland and Labrador schools beginning Sept. 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967; Includes index