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OUR ITALY
Author of Their Pilgrimage, Studies in the South and West, A Little Journey in the World ... With Many Illustrations
CONTENTS.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
OUR ITALY.
CHAPTER I.
HOW OUR ITALY IS MADE.
CHAPTER II.
OUR CLIMATIC AND COMMERCIAL MEDITERRANEAN.
CHAPTER III.
EARLY VICISSITUDES.—PRODUCTIONS.—SANITARY CLIMATE.
CHAPTER IV.
THE WINTER OF OUR CONTENT.
CHAPTER V.
HEALTH AND LONGEVITY.
CHAPTER VI.
IS RESIDENCE HERE AGREEABLE?
CHAPTER VII.
THE WINTER ON THE COAST.
CHAPTER VIII.
THE GENERAL OUTLOOK.—LAND AND PRICES.
CHAPTER IX.
THE ADVANTAGES OF IRRIGATION.
CHAPTER X.
THE CHANCE FOR LABORERS AND SMALL FARMERS.
CHAPTER XI.
SOME DETAILS OF THE WONDERFUL DEVELOPMENT.
CHAPTER XII.
HOW THE FRUIT PERILS WERE MET.—FURTHER DETAILS OF LOCALITIES.
CHAPTER XIII.
THE ADVANCE OF CULTIVATION SOUTHWARD.
CHAPTER XIV.
A LAND OF AGREEABLE HOMES.
CHAPTER XV.
SOME WONDERS BY THE WAY.—YOSEMITE.—MARIPOSA TREES.—MONTEREY.
CHAPTER, XVI.
FASCINATIONS OF THE DESERT.—THE LAGUNA PUEBLO.
CHAPTER XVII.
THE HEART OF THE DESERT.
CHAPTER XVIII.
ON THE BRINK OF THE GRAND CAÑON.—THE UNIQUE MARVEL OF NATURE.
APPENDIX.
A CLIMATE FOR INVALIDS.
THE COMING OF WINTER IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
COMPARATIVE TEMPERATURE AROUND THE WORLD.
CALIFORNIA AND ITALY.
FIVE YEARS IN SANTA BARBARA.
Observations made at San Diego City, compiled from Report Of the Chief Signal Officer of the U. S. Army.
EXTREMES OF HEAT AND COLD.
EXTREMES OF HEAT AND COLD.—Continued.
STATEMENTS OF SMALL CROPS.
INDEX.
THE END.
As We Were Saying.
Our Italy.
A Little Journey in the World.
Studies in the South and West.
Their Pilgrimage.
Nordhoff's California.
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Warner's South and West.
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Wallace's Malay Archipelago.
Wallace's Geographical Distribution of Animals.
Stanley's Congo, and the Founding of its Free State.
Stanley's Through the Dark Continent.
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Livingstone's Last Journals.
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