An American Merchant in Europe, Asia and Australia: A Series of Letters From Java, Singapore, China, Bengal, Egypt, and the...
- ISBN-10
- 1330104951
- ISBN-13
- 9781330104958
- Category
- Travel
- Pages
- 530
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-06-24
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
- Author
- George Francis Train
Description
Excerpt from An American Merchant in Europe, Asia and Australia: A Series of Letters From Java, Singapore, China, Bengal, Egypt, and the Holy Land Etc Commercial Literature is a new term. I have sought to make it acknowledged. It seems to have been thought that the only books for a merchant to read or to write, were those formidable rows of ponderous ledgers, dealing only in the inexorable logic of arithmetic, to which learning was a stranger, within whose lids a gleam of fancy or of humor dare not intrude, and which summed up the subjects and results of commerce, in the uninviting rhetoric of figures. But Commerce no longer lingers around its ancient haunts. It now pervades the world. The merchant lays his hand upon the entire products of the globe, in all the changing forms, to which human industry and ingenuity may transmute them. Agriculture says to him, "Behold the varied results of my industry in different climes, it is yours to make them useful to the nations." The Manufacturer asks him to carry and distribute the products of the loom. Whatever is valuable to man, calls on the merchant for help. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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