Excerpt from The Church in Corea It was Hendrik Hamel, with his crew Of Dutchmen, shipwrecked in 1653 Off the coast of Corea, on a trading voyage to Japan, who first drew Europe's atten tion to the little-known peninsula. Little, however, occurred to quicken that atten tion during the next two centuries, and it was not until the unfortunate country became the storm-centre of the Far East, providing the casus bellz' for two of the greatest wars of modern times (between China and Japan, 1894 - 5, and Russia and Japan, 1904 ...
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Excerpt from The Church in Corea It was Hendrik Hamel, with his crew Of Dutchmen, shipwrecked in 1653 Off the coast of Corea, on a trading voyage to Japan, who first drew Europe's atten tion to the little-known peninsula. Little, however, occurred to quicken that atten tion during the next two centuries, and it was not until the unfortunate country became the storm-centre of the Far East, providing the casus bellz' for two of the greatest wars of modern times (between China and Japan, 1894 - 5, and Russia and Japan, 1904 that its name became really familiar to European ears. 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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