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N OW that American Commerce and Enterprise are so rapidly embracing the Globe in their wide spreading relations; while millions of immigrants from every region, with their sturdy industry, their capi tal, the hoard of laborious and economical generations, and a thirst never yet satisfied, for public liberty, and law-guarded order, come to augment the resources, the prosperity, the independence and the power of the United States, the publisher Of Meyer's Unioersum, hopes that he will only meet a great and increasing want of the American public, by laying before it a work designed to afford a living and inti mate acquaintance with the natural scenery, historical monuments and social peculiarities of every people.
All persons desire to know foreign countries, but few are able to command the means and the time necessary for distant travel, while even that few must still leave many of the most interesting and in structive parts of the world unvisited or unexplored. This desire Meyer's Unaware/awn is intended to supply; it will contain views of the most remarkable cities, public edifices, and natural scenes in every zone and on every continent; accompanied by letter-press descriptions, which, while conveying the most accurate and trustworthy information, will seek to clothe the dry details of facts and figures with some thing of the vitality of nature, and to enable the reader while he Observes historical and political pheno mena to gain some insight into the causes from which they spring.
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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.
N OW that American Commerce and Enterprise are so rapidly embracing the Globe in their wide spreading relations; while millions of immigrants from every region, with their sturdy industry, their capi tal, the hoard of laborious and economical generations, and a thirst never yet satisfied, for public liberty, and law-guarded order, come to augment the resources, the prosperity, the independence and the power of the United States, the publisher Of Meyer's Unioersum, hopes that he will only meet a great and increasing want of the American public, by laying before it a work designed to afford a living and inti mate acquaintance with the natural scenery, historical monuments and social peculiarities of every people.
All persons desire to know foreign countries, but few are able to command the means and the time necessary for distant travel, while even that few must still leave many of the most interesting and in structive parts of the world unvisited or unexplored. This desire Meyer's Unaware/awn is intended to supply; it will contain views of the most remarkable cities, public edifices, and natural scenes in every zone and on every continent; accompanied by letter-press descriptions, which, while conveying the most accurate and trustworthy information, will seek to clothe the dry details of facts and figures with some thing of the vitality of nature, and to enable the reader while he Observes historical and political pheno mena to gain some insight into the causes from which they spring.
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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.
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- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 0259457620
- ISBN 13 9780259457626
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- Number of pages402
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