The living races of mankind
Subtitle: a popular illustrated account of the customs, habits, pursuits, feasts & ceremonies ofthe races of mankind throughout the world
By: H.N. Hutchinson, J.W. Gregory and R. Lydekker.
Contributors: Gregory, J. W.; Lydekker, R.
Publisher: Hutchinson
Published: 1901
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 584
First sentence: Introduction.
Recent years have witnessed a great growth of interrest among the people of this country in the more distant races of mankind. Until lately our relations with the rest af the world seemed so remote and accidental that colonial expansion was a fact for which statesmen were alomost apologetic. Our views of foreign politics rarely extended beyond the continent of Europe, and we were content for the most part that they should be directed, without criticism, by the experts in Downing Street. The...
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