Round the World

Round the World

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Round the World  by Andrew Carnegie

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1880

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Round the World

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irrigation; with this done, the wheat crop of the Pacific coast will outstrip in value, year after year, all the gold and silver that can be mined. Douglas Jerrold's famous saying applies to no other land so well as to this, for it indeed needs only "to be tickled with a hoe to smile with a harvest."

We reached Oakland, the Jersey City of San Francisco, on time to the minute; the ferry-boat starts, and there lies before us the New York of the Pacific: but instead of the bright sparkling city we had pictured, sinking to rest with its tall spires suffused by the glories of the setting sun, imagine our surprise when not even our own smoky Pittsburgh could boast a denser canopy of smoke. A friend who had kindly met us upon arrival at Oakland tried to explain that this was not all smoke; it was mostly fog, and a peculiar wind which sometimes had this effect; but we could scarcely be mistaken upon that point. No, no, Mr. O'B., you may know all about "Frisco," the Chinese, the mines, and the Yosemite, but do all

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Round the World is a classic I love the book and will recommend it to anybody. It give a vivid picture of Japan, China, Singapore, Egypt,Hindia and some other countries. If you check out all this countries almost a century after you can see that China that was written of as a never do well, Japan that was given some hope is a super power today while india that was not given a chance has gotten Atomic bomb.
This is a lession for the whole third world countries. If we put our act in order we too can become a super power in record time