The Land of the Morning
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Dixon, William Gray) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Land of the Morning: An Account of Japan and Its People Interesting, and in some respects unique, as were my experiences during my four years´ residence in Japan, I should not have ventured to base upon them an account of that country and its people, had various circumstances not convinced me that an endeavour to do so might prove useful and not unacceptable to the public. Certain it is that when, in January 1880, I gazed upon the receding shores of Japan from the deck of a homeward bound steamer, there was no idea further from my mind than the possibility of my writing a book on the scenes which I was leaving. It was true that I had seen much of Japan and of the Japanese, and that not only when discharging my professional duties in the capital, but also when travelling among the mountains of the interior, and visiting regions far removed from the gateways of Western civilization. I could not be blind to the fact that there had been granted to me fuller opportunities of studying the country and its people than fell to the lot even of most of my fellow-residents. But I did not on that account dream of writing a book. The more I had learned of the ancient civilization around me, the more sensible had I become of my own ignorance of it. To write a treatise on such a great subject was evidently a work from which any but the ablest Japanese scholar ought to shrink. After reaching home, I went through the experience, not uncommon in circumstances such as mine, of being asked by various friends to publish a book on the country and people which I had just left, and of which I was only too glad to speak. 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.
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