Roads To Travel - A Collection Of Travel Selections

ROADS TO TRAVEL ROADS tO TRAVEL A Collection of Travel Selections Edited by HARDY R. FINCH HEAD OF THE DBPARTMENT OF BNOLIIH and MARION T. PARKER DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH OF GREENWICH HIGH SCHOOL GREENWICH, CONNECTICUT Harper 3 rot hers Publishers NEW YORK AND LONDON - r 5HT 1i Hr tt Wfc K WC1 wjr-K XT U T r li WJTK T ir r CONTENTS PREFACE ix INTRODUCTION To the Student xi THE CITY THAT CONQUERED NIGHT New York City 3 Vicente Blasco Ibdnez SNAKE-DANCE Arizona 15 Mary Roberts Rinehart BRIGHT MEXICO 25 Larry Barretto A PEAK IN DARIEN Panama 35 Richard Halliburton THE BIRTH OF A VOLCANO Galdpagos Islands 47 William Beebe SNAKES AND COFFEE Brazil 59 Alice Curtis Desmond ARTIST IN GREENLAND 69 Rockwell Kent ON GOING BACK England 8 1 W. H. Hudson MAN AGAINST THE SEA Holland 93 Hendri Willem Van Loon DRESDEN AND BERLIN IOJ Anne M err j man INTRODUCTION TO FRANCE Arthur Stanley Riggs vi CONTENTS SOME Swiss IMPRESSIONS 127 Albert Bigelow Paine TREN MIXTO Spain 139 Walter Starve JUNGLES PREFERRED Belgian Congo 151 Janet Miller THE NATIVES RETURN Yugoslavia 161 Louis Adamic CAIRO AND BEYOND Kgypt 173 Emelene Abbey Dunn THE ARAB WORLD 181 Harry A. ENDS OF THE EARTH Lolo Land and Tibetan Frontier 197 Roy Chapman Andrews ORIENTAL STREETS China 209 Abel Bonnard IN AND NEAR SYDNEY Australia 221 Twain LIFE IN THE SOUTH SEAS 237 Charles Bernard Nordhoft and James Norman Hall FLIGHT TO THE SOUTH POLE 251 Richard Evelyn Byrd ADVICE FOR TRAVELERS 267 THE GIVE AND TAKE OF TRAVEL 275 Stephen r 2 Hr i3irift2 ir it T i T wy T 11 w yr iir 11 ILLUSTRATIONS THE CITY THAT CONQUERED NIGHT Frontispiece Facing p. BRAZILIAN FAZENDA 62 CANAL SCENE IN HOLLAND 94 LE BOURGET 116 YUGOSLAVIAN PEASANTS 164 THE SPHINX 176 - sgrTTTifl PREFACE OADS TO TRAVEL is designed to fill the growing need for a collection of travel selections for use in the English and social science classes in secondary schools. In recent years teachers have shown an increasing interest in travel reading, and have frequently expressed the desire for a text containing this type of material. The National Council of Teachers of English, in An Experience Curriculum in English, has suggested that schools provide literature experience which will enable the student ... to enjoy travel at home to see new landscapes, different costumes, strange customs to compare these with his own, and find so far as can be done readily the reasons for the likeness and difference. . . . The Council also suggests that literature experiences should pro vide means for the student . . . to observe life under varied phys ical conditions as clearly as possible, and to see the connection between conditions and ways of living. The selections in this volume were chosen as literary experiences that would present to the student some of the viewpoints suggested in the English curriculum. The choice was also guided by the adaptability of the selections to other subject-matter fields. In considering selections relatively equal in interest and literary value, the editors decided in favor of selections which might suggest the fusion of two or more subject fields. This collection is made particularly for junior and senior English and social science students in general or commercial courses. How ever, the editors believe that college preparatory students might use Roads to Travel profitably as a substitute for a collection of modern essays or biographies, or in an additional unitof work. The exploratory suggestions will certainly be as challenging to x PREFACE the prospective college student, and will give him opportunities to gain considerable practice in library research. The exploratory suggestions following each selection may be used in several ways. Some teachers ask the students to choose one of the suggestions and develop it. As the units vary in difficulty, the instructors make sure that the choice is commensurate with the ability and background of the individual...