
World’s Story Volume XI: Canada, South America, Central America, Mexico and the West Indies
by Eva March Tappan
- Genres: History
- Languages: English
- Provider: Librivox
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This is the eleventh volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a comprehensive presentation of the world's history, art and culture, from the early times till the beginning of the 20th century. Part XI contains stories about Canadian history and about the discovery of Central and South America, from the early Inca and Aztec civilizations to the 20th century revolutions and upheavals. - Summary by Sonia
Cast list for The Court of Justice of General Gomez:
Major:Jim Locke [ https://librivox.org/reader/10801] / Gomez: Monika M.C. [https://librivox.org/reader/8294] / Narrator: Sonia [https://librivox.org/reader/10179]
Chapters
Madame de la Tour and her defense of Fort St. John (1645), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
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How a settler built his log barn (early part of the nineteenth century), by Samuel Thompson
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How the Canadian Northwest awoke (End of the nineteenth century), by A. G. Bradley
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How Dr. Grenfell was saved (Twentieth century), by George Andrews, one of the rescuers
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The people of the Argentine Pampas (about 1870), by Dr. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
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How the Aztec king passed his time (early part of the sixteenth century), by Hubert Howe Bancroft
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The last moments of Maximilian, by Jean Paul Laurens (France, 1838), painting p. 524
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The rule of Porfirio Diaz (1877-1919), by Channing Arnold and Frederick J. Tabor Frost
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The first landing of Columbus (1492), by Ferdinand Columbus, son of Christopher Columbus
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