Series Pictured Geographies

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Illustrated with brilliant lithographs by Kurt Wiese, Pictured Geographies is a four-part series of eight titles each, of short, interesting books about countries of the Western Hemisphere; the fourth series includes (non-western-hemisphere) Australia and New Zealand. Written in the 1940s by Geraldine Bailey, Marguerite Henry, and Lois Donaldson. This series page is only for the books illustrated by Kurt Wiese.The countries of the First Series are: Alaska, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Mexico, Panama, West Indies. The Second Series countries are Bolivia, Ecuador, Greenland, Guatemala, Honduras, Iceland, Peru, Venezuela. The Third Series countries are Colombia, Costa Rica, Guiana, Newfoundland, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Salvador, Uruguay. The Fourth Series countries include Australia, Bahama Islands, Bermuda, British Honduras, Dominican Replublic, Hawaii, New Zealand, the Virgin Islands. The order given is taken from the back dust jacket flap of a title in the Fourth Series. (English, Unclassified)