The Wonders of the World 1st

The first volume consists of the continents, namely Asia-, Australia and the Pacific – Africa. The following are the important wonders. Pagoda that rocks with the wind ;The Taj Mahal-Agra; The Sacred Tank - Alwar; Amida, The Giant Diabutsu; The Schway Dagon Pagoda; The Pearl Mosque-Delhi; The Sarnath Tope; The Ruins of Martand-Kashmir; The Broken Column. Lucas Cave-Jenolan; The Sutherland Falls; Milford Sound; The Sphinx; The Island of Phile; The Tombs of the Caliphs-Cairo.

Sir Henry Hamilton Johnston GCMG KCB (1858 –1927), known as Harry Johnston, was a British explorer, botanist, artist, colonial administrator, and linguist who travelled widely in Africa and spoke many African languages. He published 40 books on African subjects and was one of the key players in the Scramble for Africa that occurred at the end of the 19th century. In 1882 he visited southern Angola with the Earl of Mayo, and in the following year met Henry Morton Stanley in the Congo, becoming one of the first Europeans after Stanley to see the river above the Stanley Pool. His developing reputation led the Royal Geographical Society and the British Association to appoint him leader of an 1884 scientific expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro. On this expedition he concluded treaties with local chiefs (which were then transferred to the British East Africa Company), in competition with German efforts to do likewise.