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Excerpt from Young Folks' Treasury, Vol. 6 of 12: Famous Travels and Adventures The men or women are few who do not love to listen to travelers' tales, nor desire themselves to go out and see the world; and to the imaginative youngster the hills which Set a blue bound to his home horizon seem to hide a fascinating paradise of wonders and joy which he resolves to explore when he has grown up. It has always been so and doubtless always will be, although the world seems now so small to the globe trotter, and the newspaper tells us, day by day, what is happen ing in countries which a few years ago were almost as remote and inaccessible as the moon. 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.