The World Before the Deluge
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: March 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9781417960057
Subjects: General & Literary Fiction; Literary; Fiction; Fiction - General
First sentence: THE observer who glances over a rich and fertile plain, watered by rivers and streams which have, during a long series of ages, pursued the same uniform and tranquil course; the traveller who contemplates the walls and monuments of a great city, the first founding of which is lost in the night of ages, testifying, apparently, to the unchangeableness of things and places; the naturalist who examines a mountain or other locality, and finds the hills and valleys and other accidents of the soil in the very spot and condition in which they are described by history and tradition-none of these observers would at first suspect that any serious change had ever occurred to disturb the surface of the globe.