Excerpt from Lots of LandThe land was here, and lots of it. In the course of time all manner of men were to reach toward it.It was a new country, a fabled country. Its challenge spread out to all corners of the earth, and white man and yellow man crossed every sea to reach it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.