Meyer's Universum, or Views of the Most Remarkable Places and Objects of All Countries, Vol. 1: In Steel Engravings by Distinguished Artists, With Descriptive and Historical Text, by Eminent Writers i - Hardcover

Charles Anderson Dana

9780666947086: Meyer's Universum, or Views of the Most Remarkable Places and Objects of All Countries, Vol. 1: In Steel Engravings by Distinguished Artists, With Descriptive and Historical Text, by Eminent Writers i

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ISBN 10: 0666947082 ISBN 13: 9780666947086

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Excerpt from Meyer's Universum, or Views of the Most Remarkable Places and Objects of All Countries, Vol. 1: In Steel Engravings by Distinguished Artists, With Descriptive and Historical Text, by Eminent Writers in Europe and America

N OW that American Commerce and Enterprise are so rapidly embracing the Globe in their wide spreading relations; while millions of immigrants from every region, with their sturdy industry, their capi tal, the hoard of laborious and economical generations, and a thirst never yet satisfied, for public liberty, and law-guarded order, come to augment the resources, the prosperity, the independence and the power of the United States, the publisher Of Meyer's Unioersum, hopes that he will only meet a great and increasing want of the American public, by laying before it a work designed to afford a living and inti mate acquaintance with the natural scenery, historical monuments and social peculiarities of every people.

All persons desire to know foreign countries, but few are able to command the means and the time necessary for distant travel, while even that few must still leave many of the most interesting and in structive parts of the world unvisited or unexplored. This desire Meyer's Unaware/awn is intended to supply; it will contain views of the most remarkable cities, public edifices, and natural scenes in every zone and on every continent; accompanied by letter-press descriptions, which, while conveying the most accurate and trustworthy information, will seek to clothe the dry details of facts and figures with some thing of the vitality of nature, and to enable the reader while he Observes historical and political pheno mena to gain some insight into the causes from which they spring.

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