Letters From the Far East (9781150676451) Sir Charles Eliot

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Paperback: 120 pages
Publisher: General Books LLC (December 22, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1150676450
ISBN-13: 978-1150676451



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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1907 Original Publisher: E analytical no limit holdem pdf. Arnold Subjects: Chinese literature Japanese literature East Asia China Japan History / General History / Asia / China History / Asia / Japan Law / International Literary Criticism / Asian / General Literary Criticism / Asian / Chinese Travel / Asia / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original analytical no limit holdem pdf. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text analytical no limit holdem pdf. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books analytical no limit holdem pdf.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: II COCHIN CHINA Ever since I was a boy and read about Further India in old geography books, the south-eastern corner of Asia has had a special fascination for me. It is full of the most varied associations, some homely, some gorgeous. Cochin China suggests the poultry-yard, and Siam is not yet dissociated from the monstrous twins who made it a familiar word when very little else was known about it in Europe. But it is also the land of the lotus and the white elephant, and somewhere in these parts was the Golden Chersonese. The whole region has been called the silken East, and the name is not amiss. They do make silk there, and the epithet seems to sum up the country. It is not the purple, blood-stained East, with its tales of ancient splendours and the conquests of Mohammedanism, but a quiet gleaming country of steaming deltas and bright waters, rich in silk, lacquer and filigree work -- with its own troubles and tyrants, no doubt, but lying somewhat apart, and left in peace by the great conquerors of Asia. Unfortunately, Fate permitted me to see only the least romantic and most europeanized part of it -- namely, Cochin China and its capital Saigon. Further India is not a bad name for the wholeregion, for it is in many ways a prolongation of India, but Indo-China is still better, for it expresses its character ...

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