Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Trading With the Far East
Asia as a whole has one-third of the world's land area and over one half of its population. It Stretches miles eastward from the Dardanelles to within 45 miles of our Alaskan coast and miles northward from the Indian Ocean to the Arctic. While its enormous desert and mountainous interior lie from to feet above sea level, nine-tenths of its people are massed on that narrow frontage of fertile land running along the ocean from India to Japan, most of them living within miles of the ocean and less than feet above its level. They Originate and conduct practically all the commerce of the Asiatic continent and their international trade has grown from 000 000 in 1913 to 000 000 in 1919, and that with the United States alone from 000 in 1913 to $2, 200, in our fiscal year 1920. 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.
