Half Hours Of Travel At Home And Abroad Asia

Author : Charles Morris
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267783236
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Half-Hours of Travel at Home and Abroad (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Morris and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Half-Hours of Travel at Home and Abroad The world is growing very narrow in these late nine teenth century days. In place of the crawling slowness of former travel, the steamship and steam-railway now fairly hurl travellers over the face of the earth, while by aid of the far-extending wire we are able to talk freely with our neighbors of the antipodes. From Dan to Beersheba has now become from New York to New South Wales, or from Chicago to bong-kong. And yet this growing neighborliness does not decrease, but rather re doubles, our interest in the scenes and people of foreign lands. Nature retains her variety, nor is man's unity much increased by his growing propinquity. Tropic and Arctic lands are as far apart in condition as ever; Europe differs from Asia, America from Africa, as greatly as of yore; man still presents every grade of development, from the lowest savagery to the highest civilization; and our interest in the marvels of nature and art, the variety of plant and animal life, and the widely varied habits and conditions, modes of thought and action, of mankind, is not likely soon to lose its zest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.