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Excerpt from Old and New Japan Under the circumstances there is only one course to pursue, namely, to accept this earlier history of the race as tradition pure and simple, but tradition which has doubtless a considerable basis of truth. 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 Book...

Excerpt from From the North Foreland to Penzance In the following pages, dealing with the most important or most picturesque of the harbours and seaports of the South Coast from the North Foreland to Penzance, no attempt has been made either to give "guide book information" which can be easily obtained elsewhere, or to afford technical sailing directions, soundings, or nautical information of the type to be found in such books as Cowper's adm...

Excerpt from A Japanese Romance: Illustrated in Colours by Arthur G. Dove The wide expanse of sea through which the Orient Queen was steadily ploughing her way at a good fifteen knots was like a sheet of hammered brass. The fan-shaped wake, with its narrow, lacelike edge of white-churned foam, and the rounded swell of the North Pacific, sweeping through the Loochoo Islands, was all that disturbed its monotonous horizon-bounded surface. Under...

Excerpt from Things Seen in Japan In one of the most vivid books descriptive of the war was a beautiful story which illustrates the ineradicable love of ¿owers which distinguishes the Japanese race. 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 ...

Excerpt from My Japanese Wife: A Japanese Idle That the present edition of M y Jap anese Wife has been called for is a source of satisfaction to the writer. Of previous editions some copies have been sold, and it is hoped the present version will prove none the le 83 acceptable from the fact that the story has been revised and a considerable amount of new matter added to it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousand...

Excerpt from Tyrol and Its People That Tyrol deserves to be better known few who have once come under the spell of its charms of scenery, and the frank hospitality and friendliness of its people, or have wandered amidst its lovely valleys and mountains, will deny. 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 his...

Excerpt from Wessex Wessex, which is very largely the county of Dorset, is one of the most interesting and picturesque regions in the south-west of England. Still far behind the times as regards the modern stress and hurry of life, and even also as regards its thought and progress towards up-to-date modernity, it offers unique attractions for the student, archæologist, and traveller of the old and truer type. The tourist of the more modern ki...

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