The first edition of this book appeared in 1944. The current revision includes text change on every page, rearranged chapters, many redrawn maps, and nearly a hundred new photograph.
SINCE this work was first published, twenty-one years ago, several naturalists have visited the Archipelago; and in order to give my readers the latest results of their researches I have added footnotes whenever my facts or conclusions have been modified by later discoveries. I have also made a few verbal alterations in the text to correct any small errors or obscurities. These corrections and …
Shanghai, sixth city of the World! Shanghai, the Paris of the East! Shanghai, the New York of the West! Shanghai, the most cosmopolitan city in the world, the fishing village on a mudflat which almost literally overnight became a great metropolis. Inevitable meeting place of world travellers, thernrnhabitat of people of forty-eight different nationalities, of the Orient yet Occidental, the city…
Mr. Miyao in his books painstakingly traced the actual locations of he old scenes and listen them with photographs of what they actually look like today and where they are situated.
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Not long ago, while writing about the African past, an elderly scholar of the West African city of Bobo-Dyulasso recalled the downfall of the Ummayad Caliphate, and opined that Africa had changed since then. Considering that the downfall of the Ummayad Caliphate had occurred a thousand years earlier, this was no small understatement; but the mufti of Bobo, concerned to argue that African histor…
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