Introduces the characteristics and habits of the beaver and discusses the beaver-fur trade and how it has threatened this animal's continued existence.
Stone Age man was not one, but many kinds of human being. Early man in Africa, Peking man in China, Neanderthal man, the Paleolithic mammoth hunters and cave dwellers of Europe, the hunting folk of the Mesolithic forests, and the farm and village people of Near East Neolithic times all appear in this book--Publisher's note.
The development of Egyptian civilization is traced through the periods of Egypt's history from about 4000 B.C. to the downfall of old Egypt in 1085 B.C.
A biography of the twenty-sixth President, who among other achievements transformed himself from a sickly youth into a hero of the Spanish-American War.