James Thomas Nichols (1865-? ) was the author of: Lands of Sacred Story (1910), Birdseye Views of Far Lands (1922), The World Around (1923), A Journey Through the Bible (1924), The Wonders of South America (1926) and The New South and Old Mexico (1927). "Birdseye Views of Far Lands is an interesting, wholesome presentation of something that a keen-eyed, alert traveler with the faculty of making contrasts with all classes of people in all sorts of places, in such a sympathetic way as to win their esteem and confidence, has been able to pick up as he has roamed over the face of the earth for a quarter of a century. "