Genre: Essays & Short Works
Chapter: 20
Listen: 4
“A legendary island in the Atlantic Ocean, first mentioned by Plato”, is how the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica described Atlantis. Lands and peoples were the focus of several nonfiction readings chosen by the readers for vol. 095: Amerigo Vespucci’s Voyages; Franz Josef Land; Country and People of the Kurds; The South Country, Sussex; Poland, First Impressions; Helena Modjeska; Civilization of Japan; the United States and China; The Isthmus of Panama; and Obi in the Caribbean. Political life received attention in the Sherman Anti-Trust Act; The Exiled Lottery; Tonkin Gulf Resolution; and Bill Clinton’s Inaugural Addresses. Scholarship and books were the focus of Roget’s Thesaurus; Thick Paper and Thin; and The Excised “My’s.” Summary by Sue Anderson