正版 房龙地理:英文 [美]房龙[H.W.VanLoon]著 中央编译出版社

Chapter 1 AND THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE WORLD WE LIVE IN

Chapter 2 A DEFINITION OF THE WORD GEOGRAPHY AND HOW I SHALL APPLY IT IN THE PRESENT VOLUME

Chapter3 OUR PLANET: ITS HABITS, CUSTOMS AND MANNERS

Chapter 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

Chapter 5 THE SEASONS AND HOW THEY HAPPEN

Chapter 6 CONCERNING THE LITTLE SPOTS OF DRY LAND ON THIS PLANET AND WHY SOME OF THEM ARE CALLED CONTINENTS WHILE OTHERS ARE NOT

Chapter 7 OF THE DISCOVERY OF EUROPE AND THE SORT OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THAT PART OF THE WORLD INTERLUDEJUST A MOMENT BEFORE WE GO ANY FURTHER WHILE I TELL YOU HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

Chapter 8 GREECE, THE ROCKY PROMONTORY OF THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN WHICH ACTED AS THE CONNECTING LINK BETWEEN THE OLD ASIA AND THE NEW EUROPE

Chapter9 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

Chapter10 SPAIN, WHERE AFRICA AND EUROPE CLASHED

Chapter11 FRANCE, THE COUNTRY THAT HAS EVERYTHING IT WANTS

Chapter12 BELGIUM, A COUNTRY CREATED BY SCRAPS OF PAPER AND RICH IN EVERYTHING EXCEPT INTER- NAL HARMONY

Chapter 13 LUXEMBURG, THE HISTORICAL CURIOSITY

Chapter14 SWITZERLAND, THE COUNTRY OF HIGH MOUNTAINS, EXCELLENT SCHOOLS AND A UNIFIED PEOPLE WHO SPEAK FOUR DIFFERENT LANGUAGES

Chaptcr15 GERMANY, THE NATION THAT WAS FOUNDED TOO LATE

Chapter16 AUSTRIA, THE COUNTRY THAT NOBODY APPRECIATED UNTIL IT NO LONGER EXISTED

Chapter17 DENMARK, AN OBJECT LESSON IN CERTAIN ADVANTAGES OF SMALL COUNTRIES OVER LARGEO NES

Chapter18 ICELAND, AN INTERESTING POLITICAL LABORATORY IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN

Chapter 19 THE SCANDINAVIAN PENINSULA, THE TERRTORY OCCUPIED BY THE KINGDOMS OF SWEDEN AND NORWAY

Chapter 20 THE NETHERLANDS, THE SWAMP ON THE BANKS OF THE NORTH SEA THAT BECAME AN EMPIRE

Chapter21 GREAT BRITAIN, AN ISLAND OFF THE DUTCH COAST WHICH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HAPPINESS OF FULLY ONE-QUARTER OF THE

HUMAN RACE

Chapter 22 RUSSIA, THE COUNTRY WHICH WAS PREVENTED BY ITS GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION FROM EVER FINDING OUT WHETHER IT WAS PART OF EUROPE OR OF ASIA

Chapter23 POLAND, THE COUNTRY THAT HAD ALWAYS SUFFERED FROM BEING A CORRIDOR AND THEREFORE NOW HAS A CORRIDOR OF ITS OWN

Chapter 24 CZECHOSLOVAKIA, A PRODUCT OF THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES

Chapter25 YUGOSLAVIA, ANOTHER PRODUCT OF THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES

Chapter26 BULGARIA, THE SOUNDEST OF ALLBALKAN COUNTRIES, WHOSE BUTTERFLY COLLECTING KING BET ON THE WRONG HORSE DURING THE GREAT WAR AND SUFFERED THE CONSEQUENCES

Chapter 27 ROUMANIA, A COUNTRY WHICH HAS OIL AND A OYAL FAMILY

Chapter 28 HUNGARY, OR WHAT REMAINS OF IT

Chapter29 FINLAND, ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF WHAT HARD WORK AND INTELLIGENCE CAN ACHIEVE AMID HOSTILE NATURAL SURROUNDINGS

Chapter30 THE DISCOVERY OF ASIA

Chapter31 WHAT ASIA HAS MEANT TO THE REST OF THE WORLD

Chapter 32 THE CENTRAL ASIATIC HIGHLANDS

Chapter 33 THE GREAT WESTERN PLATEAU OF ASIA

Chapter 34 ARABIA OR WHEN IS A PART OF ASIA NOT A PART OF ASIA？

Chapter35 INDIA, WHERE NATURE AND MAN ARE ENGAGED IN MASS PRODUCTION

Chapter36 BURMA, SIAM, ANAM AND MALACCA, WHICH OCCUPY THE OTHER GREAT SOUTHERN

PENINSULA OF ASIA

Chapter 37 THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA, THE GREAT PENINSULA OF EASTERN ASIA

Chapter38 KOREA, MONGOLIA AND MANCHURIA, IF THE LATTER STILL EXISTS WHEN THIS BOOK IS PUBLISHED

Chapter39 THE JAPANESE EMPIRE

Chapter 40 THE PHILIPPINS, AN OLD ADMINISTRATIVE PART OF MEXICO

Chapter 41 THE DUTCH EAST IND I ES, THE TAIL THAT WAGS THE DOG

Chapter 42 AUSTRALIA, THE STEP CHILD OF NATURE

Chapter 43 NEW ZEALAND

Chapter44 THE ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC WHERE PEOPLE NEITHER TOILED NOR SPUN BUT LIVED JUST THE SAME

Chapter 45 AFRICA, THE CONTINENT OF CONTRADICTIONS AND CONTRASTS

Chapter 46 AMERICA, THE MOST FORTUNATE OF ALL

Chapter 47 A NEW WORLD

在20世纪的历史学家和科普作家中，房龙不仅素以多才多艺、学识渊博著称，行文恣肆，辞采丰赡，而且始终以敏锐的目光和深邃的洞察力思考着人类生存与发展的本质问题，以真理之光和宽广的胸怀启迪和滋养着读者的心智。可以说，房龙是少数几位能够站在人文主义的立场审视全人类的历史与文化的思想家。

郁达夫曾评价说：“房龙的笔，有一种魅力……无论大人孩子，读他的书，都娓娓忘倦了。”

有名学者曹聚仁也评价说，房龙的书，“这50年中，我总是看了又看，除了《儒林外史》。《红楼梦》，没有其他的书这么吸引我了。”

《房龙地理（英文彩绘本）（套装共2册）》以方位、大视角审视几千年来人类为生存而进行的斗争。房龙生当乱世，他始终关注的一个问题便是各种文明之间如何才能破除此疆彼界，达到相互的宽容与理解。

GENERALLY SPEAKING, I have paid moreattention to the purely "human" side of geographythan to the commercial problems which are held to beof such great importance in a day and age devoted tomass production.

But experience has taught me that no matter how eloquent you waxupon the subject of importing and exporting, and the output of coalmines and oil reservoirs and bank deposits, you will never be able totell your reader something which he can remember from one page tothe next. Whenever he has need of such figures he will be obliged tolook them up once more and verify them with the help of a dozencontradictory handbooks on commercial statistics.

Man comes first in this geography.

His physical environment and background come next.

The rest is given whatever space remains.

It is in relation to us as human beings thatHendrik Van Loon now explores the crackedand wrinkled face of old Mother Earth. Thisbook contains no statistics about the importand export of raw cotton and canned kangarootails. It is packed full of information, but onythat information that has something to do withus, as inhabitants of this sphere we call home.

The discovery of a trade route, the slant ofa mountain range, the curve of a river valley:we all know vaguely that these haveenormous power to influence lives andfortunes. Now, for the first time, thefascinating story of these things and what theymean to us is set down in text and pictures.Through the analogy of handkerchiefs, onelearns what is happening to the surface of theearth. A plate of soup helps to understand aircurrents. Under your eyes the course of theGulf Stream turns into an enthralling story,and the central Spanish plateau isreconstructed in imagination by means ofyour soup plate, two saucers, and a spoon.

A Dutch-American historian and journalist.Bornin Rotterdam, he went to the United States in 1903 to study at Cornell University.From the 1910s until his death, Van Loonwrote many books, illustrating them himself.Most widely known among these is The Story ofMankind, a history of the world especially forchildren, which won the first Newbery Medal in1922. The book was later updated by Van Loonand has continued to be updated, first by his sonand later by other historians.

However, he also wrote many other very popular books aimed at young adults. As awriter he was known for emphasizing crucialhistorical events and giving a complete pictureof individual characters, as well as the role ofthe arts in history. He also had an informal andthought-provoking style which, particularly inThe Story of Mankind, included personal anecdotes.