Korea and Shantung Versus the White Peril the Anti-Japanese Agitation in California (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Korea and Shantung Versus the White Peril the Anti-Japanese Agitation in California

Now let us suppose the reader is himself an interested Japanese geographer, wonderingly cheer Ving these advancing waves of the White Peril, ever approaching nearer to his island home 01? The Asian coast. Assume that, being such an observer, he is as patriotic and intelligent as the average.

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Excerpt from Korea and Shantung Versus the White Peril the Anti-Japanese Agitation in California

That amazing Venetian, Marco Polo, who returned home from "Far Cathay" in 1292, after a sojourn there of nearly two decades, amazed Europe for many a long day by his account of the wonders of the Far East. His alluring remarks concerning Zipangu, later called Japan, were destined to have striking results. Marco Polo died in 1324, and more than a century and a half afterward one of his readers, also an Italian, inspired by his narrative and by other stories to win a sight of glorious Zipangu, resolutely set his face against all accepted geographical beliefs and sailed for the fabled island in a westward direction instead of following the eastward path of the earlier adventurer.

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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.