Richard Halliburton's Book of Marvels Set of 2 illustrated books This edition of Laugh Riot

This edition of Laugh Riot is from June 1962

and George Philip Wells

conversational storytelling format in which Uncle Jim recounts the stories to children named Betty and Dick

and Pearls

Part Two features a picture dictionary of house plants

Richard Halliburton's Book of Marvels Set of 2 illustrated books This edition of Laugh RiotThese two volumes, Book of Marvels: The Occident (1937) and Second Book of Marvels: The Orient (1938), were Halliburton's gift to young readers. Written in his signature voice, The Occident takes readers through the wonders of the Western world: Niagara Falls, the Panama Canal, the ruins of Pompeii, the monasteries of the Alps. The Orient crosses into the East: the Taj Mahal, the Pyramids, the Dead Sea, Babylon, and the ancient temples of Asia. Each