Excerpt from Through Western Madagascar in Quest of the Golden Bean I have been so deeply impressed by this veritable romance of trade that I feel con fident that the history of civilisation in Western Madagascar, if such a history ever be written, will be less a recital of the achieve ments of French military and civil adminis tration than a story of the mysterious appearance on this coast of a beautiful bean, its sudden bound into popularity in Europe and America as a food-stuff, and the subse quent march of material ...
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Excerpt from Through Western Madagascar in Quest of the Golden Bean I have been so deeply impressed by this veritable romance of trade that I feel con fident that the history of civilisation in Western Madagascar, if such a history ever be written, will be less a recital of the achieve ments of French military and civil adminis tration than a story of the mysterious appearance on this coast of a beautiful bean, its sudden bound into popularity in Europe and America as a food-stuff, and the subse quent march of material progress and mental enlightenment along the path first laid open by the irrepressible energy of modern com merce. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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