Turkish Life And Character Vol 1 Classic Reprint

Author : Élisée Reclus
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365469780
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Europe, Vol. 1 written by Élisée Reclus and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Europe, Vol. 1: Greece, Turkey in Europe, Rumania, Servia, Montenegro, Italy, Spain, and Portugal The central geographical position of Europe has undoubtedly exercised a most favourable influence upon the progress of the nations inhabiting it. The superiority of the Europeans is certainly not due to the inherent virtues of the races from which they sprang, as is vainly imagined by some, for in other parts of the ancient world these same races have exhibited far less creative genius. To the happy conditions of soil, climate, configuration, and geographical position the inhabitants of Europe owe the honour of having been the first to obtain a knowledge of the earth in its entirety, and to have remained for so long a period at the head of mankind. Historical geographers are, therefore, right when they insist upon the influence which the configuration of a country exercises upon the nations who inhabit it. The extent of table-lands, the heights of mountain ranges, the direction and volume of rivers, the vicinity of the ocean, the indenta tion of the coast-line, the temperature of the air, the abundance or rarity of rain, and the correlations between soil, air, and water - all these are pregnant with effects, and explain much of the character and mode of life of primitive nations. They account for most of the contrasts existing between nations subject to different conditions, and point out the natural highways of the globe which nations are constrained to follow in their migrations or warlike expeditions. 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.