Author: Collver Tours Company

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-08

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 9781330943175

Excerpt from The Collver Tours (Away-From-the-Usual) Of All South America To take a trip to Europe has become one of the commonplaces of life, Of late a visit to Japan and a tour around the world have become the mode and have seemed the ne plus ultra in travel. But all is not yet said. A few years more and the query will arise: Have you been to South America? Do not then feel content in the thought that you have seen the whole world, while one half of it, the Southern Hemisphere, is still unexplored! The Collver Tours Company, in Nineteen Hundred Five, announced the first tour of all South America ever planned by any travel agency and were thus the pioneers in this delightful and novel field for the pleasure seeker, which is now attracting very general attention amongst travelers of the advanced class, to whom this little book makes its appeal. Do you know that on the other side of the equator there is a city of a million inhabitants, which in appearance will bear comparison with the capitals of Europe and in some respects will surpass any of our own cities? That there are nations whose size, resources, and present development entitle them to the respect and attention of the whole world, that there is scenery more magnificent than any which this country or Europe affords and that there are comfortable, oft-times luxurious means of travel? Mr. John Barrett, formerly American minister to Argentina and Panama, and recently minister to Colombia, makes the following declaration: "I would that it were in my power to divert a small part of our travelers for pleasure and observation from Europe and Asia to South America, and particularly to Argentina, Chile, and southern Brazil. A diversion of study and investigation of this kind would exert a mighty influence in educating the North American people to a realization of the fact that we should devote more time and energy to making the intimate acquaintance of our Latin neighbors. It would demonstrate how ignorant many of us are of what Latin America can do and is doing under favorable conditions of temperate climate and national wealth. It might teach some critics of Spanish America to remove the 'beams' from their own eyes before they point out the 'motes' in those of their southern neighbors." 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.