A Tenderfoot in the Tropics (Classic Reprint)
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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Cretcher, Mack P.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from A Tenderfoot in the Tropics This unpretentious little volume is presented to the public with few excuses. No claims of particular literary effort are made for it. It contains mostly letters that were written to home papers, the Newton Kansan and the Sedgwick Pantagraph, and published from time to time during a period of more than three years which the writer spent in the Orient. An attempt has been made to arrange these letters in some measure of logical sequence. Otherwise they stand about as written while the author was gaining his limited experience in the Tropics. There must be something subtle about life in the Tropics that inspires one to write. Nearly every foreign resident there has at times felt the desire to write a book about the Philippines. Often, possibly too often, the ambition has been realized. As a result, a great deal of historical, statistical and political information has been published about the Philippines. It is available for all who care to read it. This little volume has no particular bearing on any of these topics. It is largely the first-hand impressions of a tenderfoot from the great plains of Kansas, who tarried for a time in a new and exceedingly strange environment. It is mostly a tale of personal experiences in the Philippine Islands, including also some fleeting glimpses obtained of China and Japan. The writer has attempted to tell his little story truthfully and as things appeared to him. There are "many men of many minds" among the American contingent in the Philippines. Especially is this true concerning political and social affairs. Of these topics many have had their say in books and writings seemingly without end. 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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