The Pearl Of The East Classic Reprint

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Total Pages : 96 pages
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Download or read book Manila written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Manila: The Pearl of the Orient Columbus, saluted across the centuries by Carlyle in a famous passage as "Brave sea captain, Norse sea king. Columbus my hero, royalist sea king of all," while he failed in his enterprise to discover a new route to the East Indies, did something even greater in his discovery of America. Nor can it be said that he really failed in his endeavor to find the Philippines, or such other islands of the Indies as his imagination pictured would burst in splendor upon his vision after long and weary days across a heaving, endless, sun-scorched sea. From the land which his heroic faith gave to a civilized world, strong sons have arisen whose sail track the ocean toward those shores to which his spirit yearned, and across the deep the two are now as one. Thus, while to Magellan must be given the credit for the first discovery of the Philippines, in a peculiar manner it may be said that to Columbus is due their rediscovery. And, by a strange ruling of Fate, the land to which he gave birth has now fallen heir, by the fortunes of war, to the oriental jewel in the crown of that country which served as foster mother to his proud conquests by discovery. Hernandez Magellan, who is known as the discoverer of the Philippines, was spurred by the failure of Columbus to find the long-sought-for western route to the East Indies, and realized what Columbus aspired to. 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.