Download or read book Wealth of the World's Waste Places, and Oceania written by Jewett Castello Gilson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1913 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the term "Waste Places" carries an implied meaning of "worthless," yet, interpreted in the light of Nature's methods, each region described, useless as it may apparently seem, possesses a definite relation to the rest of the world, and therefore to the well-being of man. The Sahara is the track of the winds whose moisture fertilizes the flood-plains of the Nile. The Himalaya Mountains condense the rain that gives life to India. From the inhospitable polar regions come the winds and currents that temper the heat of the tropics.