A Crime of the Under-Seas

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Author: Guy Boothby ISBN: 9783962722043
Publisher: Otbebookpublishing Publication: December 31, 2017
Imprint: Otbebookpublishing Language: English
Author: Guy Boothby
ISBN: 9783962722043
Publisher: Otbebookpublishing
Publication: December 31, 2017
Imprint: Otbebookpublishing
Language: English

There is an old saying that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives, but how true this is very few of us really understand. In the East, indeed, it amounts almost to the marvellous. There are men engaged in trades there, some of them highly lucrative, of which the world in general has never heard, and which the ordinary stay-at-home Englishman would in all probability refuse to believe, even if the most trustworthy evidence were placed before him. For instance, on the evening from which I date the story I am now about to tell you, three of us were seated chatting together in the verandah of the Grand Oriental Hotel at Colombo... (Excerpt)

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There is an old saying that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives, but how true this is very few of us really understand. In the East, indeed, it amounts almost to the marvellous. There are men engaged in trades there, some of them highly lucrative, of which the world in general has never heard, and which the ordinary stay-at-home Englishman would in all probability refuse to believe, even if the most trustworthy evidence were placed before him. For instance, on the evening from which I date the story I am now about to tell you, three of us were seated chatting together in the verandah of the Grand Oriental Hotel at Colombo... (Excerpt)

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