MAN THE WORLD OVER (CLASSIC REPRINT)

Excerpt from Man the World OverThe Authors and Publisher wish to thank all those who have helped either by criticism of the text or by supplying pictures to illustrate it. For assistance in preparing the marginal drawings they are indebted to Dr. Peter Pau, the China Inland Mission, Dr. R. W. T. Gunther, Curator of the Lewis Evans Collection of Scientific Instruments, Oxford, H. C. F enton, Esq., Australian National Travel Association, the Director of Publicity, South African Railways and Harbours Board, the Curator of the Imperial Institute, the United Africa Company, the anglo-iranian Oil Company, Messrs. Knorr and Birth, from whose publication, Land des Lie/21563, the picture on page 184 is taken, Miss Irene Mountfort, some of whose drawings are included, the London, Midland and Scottish Rail way, the Canadian Pacific Railway, the postmaster-general, Washington, the Bureau of Reclamation, Washington, Leslie Bates, Esq., Office of the High Commissioner for Canada, the London and north-eastern Railway, A. S. Moore, Esq., Rural Industries Bureau, William Drummond, Esq., Victor Cornea, Esq., the Manchester Ship Canal Company, the Great Western Railway, John Alden, Esq., the Birmingham Water Works, the Imperial Tobacco Company, Bristol, the Bernese Oberland Publicity Office, Interlaken, the Linen Industry Research Association, the King Line, Ltd., and the Editor of The Farmer and Stockbreeder.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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, an