A Newburyport schoolteacher first read these stories to her friends before offering them to a publisher. Each chapter visits a little girl who lives on the round ball floating in the air: Agoonack in the Arctic snows, Gemila in the desert, a mountain maiden of the Alps, Pen-Se in China, a girl of Africa and Louise beside the Rhine, showing how children live in each place.
A pioneering geography storybook of the 1860s, warm-hearted though its pictures of other peoples are those of its time. Download the free EPUB.