Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania (Classic Reprint) written by Jewett C. Gilson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Years ago the maps of the United States depicted a vast region west of the Missouri River stippled with dots, which were supposed to imitate sand, and marked with the portentous legend, Great American Desert. As sturdy pioneers pushed their settlements farther and farther west ward, the great American desert began to Shrink in size until the roseate descriptions of prospectors and land speculators led one to believe that this whole region needed only a touch of the plough and the harrow to produce the most bountiful crops grown anywhere in the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.