Excerpt from Problems of Greater Britain Ein 1866 -67, on leaving Cambridge, I made a journey round the world on which I wrote a book of travel, the name of which has lived while the book is wholly out of date. Owing to the success of the title of Greater Britain, the work, since the cessation of its sale as a new book, has continued to be in demand - a demand which has shown no tendency to decrease with the lapse of years, - but has been a source of embarrassment to the author, who could not but feel that the work had ...
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Excerpt from Problems of Greater Britain Ein 1866 -67, on leaving Cambridge, I made a journey round the world on which I wrote a book of travel, the name of which has lived while the book is wholly out of date. Owing to the success of the title of Greater Britain, the work, since the cessation of its sale as a new book, has continued to be in demand - a demand which has shown no tendency to decrease with the lapse of years, - but has been a source of embarrassment to the author, who could not but feel that the work had become in a great number of points wholly inap plicable to existing circumstances.) In 1875 I made another journey round the globe, after which I added two chapters to Greater Britain, and, by the insertion of footnotes, tried to bring my volumes up to date; but the attempt was a failure, as the whole scheme of the work would have had to be recast in order to prevent it, in many passages, from conveying inaccurate impressions. [as regards two subsequent journeys, x/ in each of which I made my way half round the world, I have not attempted to write of them in the form of a record of travel 3 I have thought, however, that there was room for an entirely new book upon the same subjects as those treated in the original work, but dealt with from the point of view of political and social observation and comparison rather than from that of descriptive Sight-seeing. L. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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