IN THE LANDS OF THE DESERT Like a rocky island in a raging sea, Islam stubbornly resists the waves of Western civilization, and the ancient Moslem traditions passed on from father to son have more force than the modern ideas of alien rulers. CARPENTER'S WORLD TRAVELS FROM TANGIER Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Tripoli, COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY N. Y. First Edition ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 'N THE publication of this volume on the countries of North Africa I wish to thank the Secretary of State for letters which have given me the assistance of our official representatives in the countries visited. I thank also our Secretary of Agriculture and our Secretary of Labour for appointing me an Honorary Commissioner of their Departments in foreign lands. Their credentials have been of the greatest value, making accessible sources of information seldom opened to the ordinary traveller. I acknowledge also the assistance and coöperation rendered by Mr. Dudley Harmon, my editor, and Miss Ellen McBryde Brown and Miss Josephine Lehmann in the revision of the notes dictated or penned by me on the ground. While most of the illustrations are from my own negatives, certain photographs have been supplied by the French colonial officials in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, the American Geographical Society, the American Red Cross, and the Publishers' Photo Service, all of which are protected by copyright. FRANK G. CARPENTER. 528610 |