地理的故事（英文版）

（美)亨德里克·威廉·房龙

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Foreword
1.And These Are the People Who Live in the World We Live in
2.A Definition of the Word Geography and How I Shall Apply It in the Present Volume
3.Our Planet：Its Habits, Customs and Manners
4.Maps.A very Brief Chapter upon a Very Big and Fascinating Subject.Together with a Few Observations on the Way People Slowly Learned How to Find Their Way on This Planet of Ours
5.The Seasons and How They happen
6.Concerning the Little Spots of Dry Land on This Planet and Why Some of Them are Called Continents While Others are not
7.Of the Discovery of Europe and the Sort of People Who Live in That Part of the World
8.Greece, the Rocky Promontory of the Eastern Mediterranean Which Acted as the Connecting Link Between the Old Asia and the New Europe
9.Italy, the Country Which due to Its Geographical Situation Could Play the Role of a Sea-Power or a Land-Power, as the Occasion Demanded
10.Spain, Where Africa and Europe Clashed
11.France, the Country That Has Everything It Wants
12.Belgium, A Country Created by Scraps of Paper and Rich in Everything except Internal Harmony
13.Luxemburg, the Historical Curiosity
14.Switzerland, the Country of High Mountains, Excellent Schools and a Unified People Who Speak Four Different Languages
15.Germany, the Nation That was Founded too Late
16.Austria, the Country That Nobody Appreciated Until It no Longer Existed
17.Denmark, An Object Lesson in Certain Advantages of Small Countries over Large Ones
18.Iceland, An Interesting Political Laboratory in the Arctic Ocean
19.The Scandinavian Peninsula, The Territory Occupied by the Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway
20.The Netherlands, the Swamp On the Banks of the North Sea That Became An Empire
21.Great Britain, An Island off the Dutch Coast Which Is Responsible For the Happiness of Fully One-Quarter of the Human Race
22.Russia, the Country Which Was Prevented By Its Geographical Location From Ever Finding Out Whether It Was Part of Europe Or of Asia
23.Poland, the Country That Had always Suffered from Being a Corridor and Therefore now Has a Corridor of Its Own
24.Czechoslovakia, a Product of the Treaty of Versailles
25.Yugoslavia, Another Product of the Treaty of Versailles
26.Bulgaria, the Soundest of All Balkan Countries, Whose Butterfly-Collecting King Bet on the Wrong Horse during the Great War and Suffered the Consequences
27.Romania, a Country Which Has Oil and a Royal Family
28.Hungary, or What Remains of It
29.Finland, Another Example of What Hard Work and Intelligence can Achieve amid Hostile Natural Surroundings
30.The Discovery of Asia
31.What Asia has Meant to the Rest of the World
32.The Central Asiatic Highlands
33.The Great Western Plateau of Asia
34.Arabia—or When is a Part of Asia not a Part of Asia
35.India, Where Nature and Man are Engaged in Mass-Production
36.Burma, Siam, Anam and Malacca, Which Occupy the Other Great Southern Peninsula of Asia
37.The Republic of China, the Great Peninsula of Eastern Asia
38.Korea, Mongolia
39.The Japanese Empire
40.The Philippines, an old Administrative Part of Mexico
41.The Dutch East Indies, the Tail That Wags the Dog
42.Australia, the Step-Child of Nature
43.New Zealand
44.The Islands of the Pacific Where People Neither Toiled Nor Spun but Lived Just the Same
45.Africa, the Continent of Contradictions and Contrasts
46.America, the Most Fortunate of All
47.A New World

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