The Inter Ocean Curiosity Shop for the Year 1881 - Couverture souple

MacMillan, Thomas C

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3337038034 ISBN 13 : 9783337038038

Editeur : Hansebooks, 2017

Synopsis

The Inter Ocean Curiosity Shop for the Year 1881 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1882. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

I t Tha three preceding annual volumes of Our. Cueiositt Shop are so well known to the readers of The I nteb Ocean that this one, the fourth, needs no introduction. Since the iSB ue of the number for the year 1880, numerous and hearty commendations have been received from representatives of many of the leading professions educators, lawyers, editors, and business men generally in regara both to the aim and the character of this form of Cub Cueiositt Shop; and all have in various ways expressed the opinion that, in its treatment of the myriad subjects it touches, it has been at once thorough and concise, so that none were compelled to search through the usual bushel of chaff for the single coveted golden grain. The intelligent reader will, upon a moments reflection, appreciate the fact that each year the labor of preparing a work of this kind for the general public is materially increased. An annual encyclopedia confines itself to the recording of the events of the year; it I s, as the newspaper, the hasty historian of the day. With Ous Cueiosity Shop, however, it is somewhat different More than a barren chronological record of a twelvemonth or a decade, it reaches out and appropriates for the benefit of its readers the most recent developments and discoveries of science; it seeks to explain the greater or lesser social and political movements of the past and of the hour; it compresses into the smallest space possible the best thought of religious teachers and other educators; and it presents for the noble emulation of the young the outlines of the lives and characters of those who have risen to distinction in the several walks of life. And the cost of this miniature library of miscellaneous information for the people is so trifling that it rests lightly upon all who are moved to purchase copies of it for themselves or for the use of their friends. The attent
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hansebooks
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3337038034
• ISBN 13: 9783337038038
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 202
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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