Manila, the Pearl of the Orient: Guide Book to the Intending Visitor - Couverture souple

Manila Merchants Association

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0559621051 ISBN 13 : 9780559621055

Editeur : Bibliolife, 2008

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Carlyle in a famous passage as Brave sea captain, Norse sea king, Columbus my hero, royalist sea king of all, while he failed in his enterprise to discover a new route to the East Indies, did something even greater in his discovery of A merica. Nor can it be said that he really failed in his endeavor to find the Philippines, or such other islands of the Indies as his imagination pictured would burst in splendor upon his vision after long and weary days across a heaving, endless, sun-scorched sea. From the land which his heroic faith gave to a civilized world, strong sons have arisen who.se sail track the ocean toward those shores to which his spirit yearned, and across the deep the two are now as one. Thus, while to Magellan must be given the credit for the first discovery of the Philippines, in a peculiar manner it may be said that to Columbus is due their rediscovery. A nd, by a strange ruling of Fate, the land to which he gave birth has now fallen heir, by the fortunes of war, to the oriental jewel in the crown of that country which served as foster mother to his proud conquests by discovery. Hernandez Magellan, who is known as the discoverer of the Philippines, was spurred by the failure of Columbus to find the long-sought-for western route to the East Indies, and realized what Columbus aspired to.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bibliolife
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0559621051
• ISBN 13: 9780559621055
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
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