| Figure | Title |
| 1 | An ocean steamer in the Shat-el-Arab |
| 2 | On the deck of a Tigris River steamer |
| 3 | Wharves at Basra |
| 4 | Koofahs on the Tigris River |
| 5 | Making a koofah |
| 6 | Palm gardens |
| 7 | Houses of mud brick in a town on the Tigris |
| 8 | Drawing water from the river to use on the fields |
| 9 | A kelek on the Tigris |
| 10 | An asphalt spring |
| 11 | A minaret |
| 12 | A bridge of boats at Bagdad |
| 13 | A crowded Bagdad street |
| 14 | Plowing |
| 15 | Herding sheep on a ricky hillside |
| 16 | Weaving black cloth for Arab tents |
| 17 | Making muc bricks near the Tigris. Bricks drying in the hot sun. |
| 18 | Camel-riding traders in the desert |
| 19 | Trading in a city market place |
| 20 | Digging among the ruins of an ancient city |
| 21 | A Bagdad bazaar |
| 22 | A khan |
| 23 | A loaded camel train in Mosul, a city on the Tigris |
| 24 | The crumbled remains of the city of Babylon |
| 25 | A home of desert Arabs |
| 26 | A village in the land of the Tigris |
| 27 | Interesting homes in Bagdad |
| 28 | An airplane view of Bagdad from a height of a few hundred feet |
| 29 | An airplane view of Bagdad from a height of nearly half a mile |
| 30 | Drawing made from airplane view of Bagdad |
| 31 | Drawing showing Bagdad and more than twenty-five miles of the Tigris |
| 32 | An airplane view of a seacoast |
| 33 | Drawing made from the airplane view of a seacoast |
| 34 | Map of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and the Persian Gulf |
| 35 | Map of "the land of the five seas" |
| 36 | The sea |
| 37 | Map for the journey through the Persian Gulf |
| 38 | Map in Figure 37 drawn on a smaller scale |
| 39 | A picture of a ball |
| 40 | First part of the world map |
| 41 | Diagram of curved lines |
| 42 | A garden of date palms |
| 43 | A map for the journey to the Nile |
| 44 | Muscat, a town on the coast of Arabia |
| 45 | A flock of sheep in the desert |
| 46 | An Arabian coast town, less modern than the one shown in Figure 44 |
| 47 | The Arabian coast near the southern entrance to the Red Sea |
| 48 | Part of the Suez Canal |
| 49 | First diagram for the game of "Captain" |
| 50 | Second diagram for the game of "Captain" |
| 51 | Third diagram for the game of "Captain" |
| 52 | Plowing an irrigated field near the Nile |
| 53 | Good pasturage among palm trees in Egypt |
| 54 | A sakieh. Taking water from the Nile for the fields |
| 55 | Fertile fields between the banks of the Nile and the bordering deserts |
| 56 | Egyptian farmers lifting water for their crops by means of shadufs |
| 57 | Goods brought to the Nile village to be shipped on river boats |
| 58 | Nile boats |
| 59 | A pyramid |
| 60 | Rocky bluffs along the Nile |
| 61 | In a Cairo street |
| 62 | An encampment of wandering shepherds |
| 63 | An oasis garden in a sandy desert |
| 64 | Climbing a date palm tree |
| 65 | The first cataract of the Nile |
| 66 | The great dam at Assuan |
| 67 | Natives of the upper Nile |
| 68 | A zebra at home |
| 69 | A rhinoceros in the grasslands |
| 70 | An African antelope, another animal of the grassy plains |
| 71 | A captured buffalo |
| 72 | Homes of natives near the White Nile |
| 73 | The acacia, a thorny tree of the grasslands |
| 74 | Abdullah pointing to the zenith |
| 75 | Abdullah pointing to the horizon |
| 76 | Abdullah pointing to the sun at noon on June 21 |
| 77 | Abdullah pointing to the sun at noon on December 22 |
| 78 | Mingi pointing to the sun at noon on December 22 |
| 79 | Mingi pointing to the sun at noon on June 21 |
| 80 | A map for the journeys along the Congo |
| 81 | A native village on the shore of Lake Victoria |
| 82 | Ready for the hunt |
| 83 | Hunters bringing home the spoils |
| 84 | A hippopotamus |
| 85 | Drawings of an oil palm tree, a manioc plant, and a banana tree |
| 86 | A "clearing" in a forest near the Congo |
| 87 | A native village in the Congo region |
| 88 | Drawings of Congo houses, and of museum materials |
| 89 | Huts thatched with banana leaves |
| 90 | Dragging huge timbers out of a forest in the land of the Congo |
| 91 | Moambu treading oil from the fruit of the oil palm in a hollowed-log trough |
| 92 | A wood-burning engine on a railroad in the Congo region |
| 93 | Bilumbu's father making a fish net from palm tree fibers |
| 94 | Carrying bananas through a Congo forest; a bridge of vines |
| 95 | Congo natives in a dugout canoe towing logs roped with vines |
| 96 | A Congo forest trail |
| 97 | A map for the Mediterranean journeys |
| 98 | The Rock of Gibraltar |
| 99 | A part of the town of Tangier, on the Barbary Coast |
| 100 | A part of the Barbary Coast city of Algiers |
| 101 | An aged olive tree |
| 102 | An old, old olive grove |
| 103 | In a Mediterranean orchard |
| 104 | The Riviera coast town of San Remo |
| 105 | Riviera flowers to be gathered for perfume |
| 106 | Naples, Vesuvius, and the bay |
| 107 | Macaroni drying |
| 108 | Vineyards in northeastern Italy |
| 109 | An Italian wheat field |
| 110 | Orchards in Italy |
| 111 | Marble quarries at Carrara |
| 112 | Fishing boats and nets |
| 113 | A view of the Strait of Messina from the city of Messina |
| 114 | Demetra's village |
| 115 | A rocky pasture in mountainous Greece |
| 116 | Herding goats in Greece |
| 117 | The port of Genoa |
| 118 | A street in Genoa |
| 119 | Airplane view of a part of Milan |
| 120 | Lake Como, Italy, and the city of Como |
| 121 | Little hillside fields above a Swiss village |
| 122 | The city of Lugano and Lake Lugano |
| 123 | A picturesque farm home in Switzerland |
| 124 | Mouth of St. Gotthard Tunnel and the entering railroad |
| 125 | St. Bernard dogs |
| 126 | Mountain climbers in the high Alps |
| 127 | The Aletsch Glacier |
| 128 | A rough part of the Rhone Glacier |
| 129 | Map of part of Switzerland |
| 130 | Part of the city of Lucerne |
| 131 | A large power plant at Amsteg, in a beautiful Swiss mountain valley |
| 132 | A village and farm lands in a high valley in Switzerland |
| 133 | A high mountain pasture, or "alp" |
| 134 | A herder carrying a cheese down from a high mountain pasture |
| 135 | Dragging hay down for winter feeding |
| 136 | Racks for drying grain |
| 137 | A map for journeys to the north |
| 138 | Looking across the Middle Rhine |
| 139 | Cologne, on the Lower Rhine |
| 140 | Vineyards on a terraced slope of the Middle Rhine Valley |
| 141 | Across the Middle Rhine from Coblenz |
| 142 | Pastures of the Netherlands |
| 143 | Hauling two products of the polders |
| 144 | Barges loaded with hay on a Dutch canal |
| 145 | Uploading cheeses from a canal barge in Amsterdam |
| 146 | A dike town in the Netherlands |
| 147 | A Dutch fishing village |
| 148 | On the Zuider Zee in winter |
| 149 | Jan and his shadow in June |
| 150 | Jan and his shadow in December |
| 151 | Coastal dunes and the village they help to protect from the sea |
| 152 | A glacier and waterfall in mountainous Norway |
| 153 | Boats and houses built of lumber from Norwegian forests |
| 154 | The busy water front at Bergen |
| 155 | Near the wharves in Bergen |
| 156 | The harvest of the sea |
| 157 | Farms in a beautiful Norwegian valley |
| 158 | Haying in Norway |
| 159 | Milkmaids on a winding mountain road |
| 160 | A part of Christiania, Norway's chief city |
| 161 | The sun in the northern sky, exactly at midnight |
| 162 | Reindeer, the chief support of many Laplanders |
| 163 | Laplanders and their summer home |
| 164 | Drawing of a plate |
| 165 | Peary on board the Roosevelt |
| 166 | Struggling over the polar ice |
| 167 | Amundsen at the South Pole |
| 168 | A waste of snow and ice in the Far South, glittering in the summer sun |
| 169 | Shackleton's disabled ship fast in the polar ice in midwinter |
| 170 | A drawing of the globe to show a few places halfway between the poles |
| 171 | A drawing of the globe showing many places halfway between the poles |
| 172 | A drawing of the globe showing the equator |
| 173 | World map |
| 174 | Harvesting wheat in South Africa |
| 175 | World map |
| 176 | Dog team on frozen river in northern Asia |
| 177 | Farm lands in central eastern Asia |
| 178 | A home amid palms in southern Asia |
| 179 | The world map |
| 180 | An airplane view of orchards and farms in southeastern Australia |
| 181 | Tropical forest in northeastern Australia |
| 182 | Map of the Western Hemisphere |
| 183 | A stock farm in the central part of North America |
| 184 | A forest in a hot, wet part of southern North America |
| 185 | A winter scene in northern North America |
| 186 | Tropical forest in northern South America |
| 187 | A stock farm in southern South America |
| 188 | Map of the Western Hemisphere |
| 189 | Map of the Eastern Hemisphere |