| A Crime of the Under-seas Contributor(s): Boothby, Guy (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798674138266 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $10.76 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Australian & Oceanian |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.91 lbs) 280 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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 under-stand. 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." |