The Mantle of the East (Classic Reprint)

The Mantle of the East (Classic Reprint)
ISBN-10
0484179411
ISBN-13
9780484179416
Category
India
Pages
340
Language
English
Published
2017-12-19
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Author
Edmund Candler

Description

Excerpt from The Mantle of the East My wanderings in the East have been spread over ten years, but what one gains in insight during a long stay one loses in the power of conveying. The most illuminating books on India have been written by people who pass through, seeing everything with fresh eyes, yet necessarily sacrificing something of just truth to the preconceived I-felt-as-if-'a-page had fluttered out of the Arabian Nights attitude. That is the visionary gleam of travel. We lose it when we learn that truth is not always beauty. 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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