Carpenter's World Travels France to Scandinavia - Frank G Carpenter
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What does the narrator describe about the new Europe and the great ship Majestic?
chapter i of france to scandinavia by frank g carpenter a note before we start in these travels in europe i shall ask you to explore a new continent the old europe died with the world war and then a new europe was born it did not rise phoenix-like from the ashes but is still in its swaddling clothes sprawling about on the floor and trying to grow Like our own dear babies at home, it shows new aspects each day and the changes are many and frequent. The social conditions are different. The new woman is rising to an equal plane with the man and the new man thinks and acts differently from what he did in the past. The nations have new relations to us and in spirit and fact, we are fast becoming part and parcel with them, sharing in their troubles and borrowing the features in which they excel.
Our social and business relations are growing closer, and with railway, steamship, and airplane joined to telegraph, cable, and radio, the world is becoming more and more one vast family where distance apart cuts no figure. And so we are going abroad to visit our cousins on the other side of the water. We have the largest ship ever built, and it will take us only six days to cross the Atlantic. Wakefield in his trips from the Blue Bed to the Brown. Landing in France, we shall hire automobiles and move at will over the country, now on the farms, now in the cities, and now on the battlefields where our troops took a live part in the World War. We shall spend some time in Paris and other industrial centers and then cross over to visit our busy Belgian friends.
We shall stop a while in Brussels and Antwerp, go out to see the new library of Louvain, built by Americans and passed through historic Bruges and Ghent. Our first view of Holland will be from an airplane, after which we shall come down to earth and take trips along the tree-lined canals, inspecting the wonders of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, and the quaint villages of the Zuiderzee. A step farther will bring us to the low, flat lands of the Danes, with its luxuriant pastures, helpful hens, and cooperative farms. We shall visit Copenhagen, the seaport guarding the Baltic, and then go northward to the fjords of the Scandinavian peninsula. Here we shall stop in Christiania, the capital of Norway, and motor a while through its woods and farms before going to Sweden, where our journey ends in Stockholm, the island city of Europe.
In these travels, as always, I have tried not to philosophize and do not predict. I have attempted only to give plain, homely pictures of what I have seen, and if these please the reader, I shall be amply repaid. A MODERN COLUMBUS I feel that I am the modern Columbus, at the end of the fifteenth century, the great genoese started west across the atlantic and discovered america in the youth of the twentieth century i am starting across the atlantic to discover the new world of europe columbus had a fleet of three little vessels his flagship the santa maria was only ninety feet long and twenty feet wide and its displacement was about thirty-five tons my ship is the majestic the biggest boat that has plowed the sea since god divided the waters
It is more than double the length of the Ark of Old Noah and thrice its depth from the hurricane deck to the keel. It is just about 1,700 times the size of the flagship of Columbus. To be exact, it has 56,000 gross tonnage, is 956 feet long, 100 feet wide, and a little more than 100 feet deep. But figures mean nothing except to an Einstein, an Isaac Newton, or a Humphrey Davy. let me give you some concrete comparisons take the woolworth building in lower new york let the genie who moved aladdin's palace in the wink of an eye lift it up and lay it lengthwise beside us out here in mid-ocean the majestic is almost two hundred feet longer and its cubic contents are i should say greater when the central park obelisk was brought from egypt to new york it filled the steamer on which it was carried you could put the washington monument
the greatest of all obelisks on the deck of the majestic and there would still be two hundred feet between its aluminum tip and the prow and a like distance from its base to the stern noah's ark estimating the cubit at eighteen inches was four hundred and fifty feet long seventy-five feet wide and the bible says it had only three stories this flagship of mine has nine decks and if a ten-story apartment house could be built on its keel
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What does the narrator describe about the new Europe and the great ship Majestic?
0:00–1:00:24
2
How does the discussion shift to France’s economic role and the American mortgage on the country?
1:00:24–1:47:46
3
What details are given about France’s post‑war reconstruction, agriculture and industry?
1:47:46–2:31:21
4
What measures is France taking to increase its birth rate and support families?
2:31:21–3:30:23
5
How did Belgium rebuild its industry, agriculture, and infrastructure after World War I?
3:30:23–4:30:30
6
What are the key features of Dutch canals, dikes, and the organization of the Netherlands?
4:30:30–4:53:29
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How did the Dutch banking system and cheese industry shape everyday life in Holland?
4:53:29–5:28:33
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What is the process of cutting and polishing diamonds in Amsterdam’s factories?
5:28:33–7:12:00