# Help me remember these 'travelog' type books from my childhood

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**Created:** [April 30, 2013, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-these-travelog-type-books-from-my-childhood/657099 "2013-04-30T13:53:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-these-travelog-type-books-from-my-childhood/657099/1 "2013-04-30T13:53:57Z")

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These were the hardback book equivalent of National Geographic magazine. They had pictures from all over the world, but also a lot of writing. I remember them being very dark in color, but maybe some reddish (and maybe bluish) coloring around the title or on the spine. I remember reading them in the 1960s, but I suspect they were actually published in the 1930s. I just remember there was a series of them on various parts of the world.

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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-these-travelog-type-books-from-my-childhood/657099/2 "2019-08-20T21:18:22Z")

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Well, I would like to take the opportunity to thank all who contributed to this endeavor to identify this series of books:

Thanks to Earl Snake-Hips Tucker! You Da Man!

I actually found two surviving volumes from a recent search of the atticl in my childhood home. I was wrong about the dates, though. They weren’t published in the 1930s, but the 1950s, if you’re interested. . . the series name was “Lands and Peoples” published by Grolier

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**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-these-travelog-type-books-from-my-childhood/657099/3 "2019-08-21T14:23:18Z")

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I remember those books. I had a few and looked at them all of the time. I had a “spinster” aunt who would give them to me. I just don’t remember what they were called. I picture them being dark red also.