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Title: Topsy-Turvy Land
Arabia Pictured for Children

Author: Samuel M. Zwemer
Amy E. Zwemer

Release Date: April 19, 2005 [EBook #15658]

Language: English

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TOPSY-TURVY LAND

ARABIA PICTURED
FOR CHILDREN

[Illustration: ARAB BOYS.]

TOPSY-TURVY LAND

ARABIA PICTURED
FOR CHILDREN

BY
SAMUEL M. ZWEMER
AND
AMY E. ZWEMER

[Illustration]

Fleming H. Revell Company
NEW YORK CHICAGO TORONTO

Copyright, 1902 by
Fleming H. Revell Company
(July)

[Transcriber's Note to the text version: in the original images, the word
Hadramaut has a breve above the u.]

DEDICATED
TO THE BOYS AND GIRLS
WHO ARE HELPING TO TURN THE WORLD
UPSIDE DOWN

PREFACE

This is a book of pictures and stories for big children and small grown-up
folks; for all who love Sinbad the sailor and his strange country. It is a
topsy-turvy book; there is no order about the chapters; and you can begin
to read it anywhere. It is intended to give a bird's-eye view to those who
cannot take birds' wings. The stories are not as good as those of the
Arabian Nights but the morals are better--and so are the pictures.
Moreover the stories are true. You must not skip any of the chapters or
the pictures but you may the preface, if you like.

{S.M.Z.
{A.E.Z.

_Bahrein, Arabia._

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. WHY IS ARABIA TOPSY-TURVY LAND? 15
II. A LESSON IN GEOGRAPHY 21
III. THE SQUARE-HOUSE WITH THE BLACK OVERCOAT 27
IV. SABBACH-KUM BIL KHEIR! 31
V. AT THE CORNER GROCERY 37
VI. BLIND FATIMAH 43
VII. DATES AND SUGAR-CANE 47
VIII. THE SHEPHERD OF THE SEWING-MACHINE 54
IX. THE CHILDREN OF THE DESERT 58
X. NOORAH'S PRA