This Giddy Globe
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About This Book
The first half of this ostensible geography treatise combines humorous stream-of-consciousness observations on weather, topography, and Prohibition with illustrations and poems lifted from Herford's fellow contributors to Puck. The second half takes a breezy look at the nations of the world, each of whom, with the exception of Germany ("This Space to Let") the author describes as having an army "second to none in bravery and who won the world war."
Chapters (191)
- THIS
- PETER SIMPLE, F.T.G.
- OLIVER HERFORD, V. D. W. A.
- NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
- PRESIDENT WILSON
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- THIS GIDDY GLOBE
- PART I WHY IS THE GLOBE? CHAPTER I
- THE FIRST CALENDAR
- PREFACE STRICTLY PRIVATE
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- QUESTIONS
- CHAPTER IV
- QUESTIONS
- CHAPTER V
- QUESTIONS
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII
- CHAPTER VIII
- CHAPTER IX
- CHAPTER X
- QUESTIONS
- CHAPTER XI
- QUESTIONS
- CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII
- CHAPTER XIV
- CHAPTER XV
- CHAPTER XVI
- QUESTIONS
- CHAPTER XVII
- PART II
- CHAPTER XVIII
- CHAPTER XIX
- CHAPTER XX
- CHAPTER XXI
- UNCLE SAM’S PHRENOLOGICAL CHART
- CHAPTER XXII
- CHAPTER XXIII
- CHAPTER XXIV
- CHAPTER XXV
- CHAPTER XXVI
- PART III
- CHAPTER XXVII
- CHAPTER XXVIII
- CHAPTER XXIX
- CHAPTER XXX
- CHAPTER XXXI
- THIS SPACE TO LET
- CHAPTER XXXII
- CHAPTER XXXIII
- CHAPTER XXXIV
- CHAPTER XXXV
- CHAPTER XXXVI
- CHAPTER XXXVII
- CHAPTER XXXVIII
- CHAPTER XXXIX
- CHAPTER XL
- CHAPTER XLI
- CHAPTER XLII
- EPILOGUE
- APPENDIX
- THE APPENDIX
- FOOTNOTE:
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