The World of To-day: The Marvels of Nature and the Creations of Man, Volume 1Harry Johnston, Leslie Haden Baron Haden-Guest William H. Wise & Company, 1937 |
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... Algiers . The High Plateaux are vast plains separated by parallel ranges of mountains which rise from the coast and ... Algiers $ 1 The old Corsair stronghold of Algiers , for many centuries the terror of the civilised world , has now ...
... Algiers . The High Plateaux are vast plains separated by parallel ranges of mountains which rise from the coast and ... Algiers $ 1 The old Corsair stronghold of Algiers , for many centuries the terror of the civilised world , has now ...
Page 293
... Algiers an interesting excursion is to be made to the Mzab and the country of the Uled - Naïl , or Children of Naïl , a tribe whose women have long had a very bad reputation , espe- cially for the freedom of their dances , though there ...
... Algiers an interesting excursion is to be made to the Mzab and the country of the Uled - Naïl , or Children of Naïl , a tribe whose women have long had a very bad reputation , espe- cially for the freedom of their dances , though there ...
Page 294
... Algiers , no less interesting in a dif- ferent way , is to Teniet - al - Had and its forest of cedars . The cedars of the Atlas are very imposing and long - lived . Some of them reach a height of 120 feet and one of them is known to be ...
... Algiers , no less interesting in a dif- ferent way , is to Teniet - al - Had and its forest of cedars . The cedars of the Atlas are very imposing and long - lived . Some of them reach a height of 120 feet and one of them is known to be ...
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FRANCE | 9 |
The land and the peopleA rich variety of sceneryThe | 24 |
BELGIUM | 65 |
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