Asia, Vol. 1: Northern and Eastern Asia (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Asia, Vol. 1: Northern and Eastern Asia

During the second half of the dying century the African Continent may be said to have enjoyed a monopoly of public interest. So rapid and marvellous have been the developments, both geographical and political, witnessed in that region, that it almost needed the Armenian atrocities to recall attention to the scarcely less thrilling and in some respects even more important events that have taken place in the neighbouring con tinent of Asia s...