From a series of books about foreign countries popular with children. In each, an exciting story of adventure is told against a background of the scenes, enriched with history, geography, customs and folklore. The photographs which illustrate the text add immeasurably to the vividness of these stories of life in other lands. An interesting look at pre-Nazi 1930\'s Germany.

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"I might try," squeaked a diminutive boy, whose dark eyes had an unfortunate twist."Ye-s-s, Bartie," said his grandmother doubtfully, looking out of the window upon the water wrinkled by the rising wind."Wouldn\'t be much wuss," observed Bartholomew\'s grandfather, leaning forward in his old red arm-chair and steadily eying a failing fire as if arguing this matter with the embers. Then he added, "You could take the small boat.""Yes," said Bart eagerly. "I could scull, you know; and if the doctor wasn\'t there when I got there, I could tell \'em you didn\'t feel well, and he might come when he could."

Madeline Brandeis was an American author who wrote a series of popular kids books in the early 20th century, including the "Children of America" and "Children of All Lands" series. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Leopold Classic Library is delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive collection. As part of our on-going commitment to delivering value to the reader, we have also provided you with a link to a website, where you may download a digital version of this work for free. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. Whilst the books in this collection have not been hand curated, an aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature. As a result of this book being first published many decades ago, it may have occasional imperfections. These imperfections may include poor picture quality, blurred or missing text. While some of these imperfections may have appeared in the original work, others may have resulted from the scanning process that has been applied. However, our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. While some publishers have applied optical character recognition (OCR), this approach has its own drawbacks, which include formatting errors, misspelt words, or the presence of inappropriate characters. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with an experience that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic book, and that the occasional imperfection that it might contain will not detract from the experience.