(Illustrated Collector's Edition) The Story of the Pacific

Author: (American) H.G. Wells, translated by Sun Liang, Xiao Ming
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: The content of this book: Why are the truly remarkable experiences in life so incredibly simple? When I was a child, I knew the story of the Panama Canal by heart. In the early 1950s, one of my grandmother's brothers moved to Brazil. He survived yellow fever and the turmoil of revolution, accumulating quite a fortune. When I was around six or seven, he returned to the Netherlands, bringing along a lovely family—with several daughters of dark eyes and dark hair. They caused quite a stir in our small Dutch town and soon had to flee to Paris and the Riviera. Compared to spending a simple and pleasant night at home with some unfamiliar cousin, the charming atmosphere there was more suited to their passionate Latin style.