Lanterna Rally

Author: F. Ferreira Ramos

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-31

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781333421687

Excerpt from The Valorisation of Coffee in Brazil: A Lecture Delivered on 29th January 1907 Before the Members of the Antwerp Society for the Study of Colonial Questions When I arrived at San Paulo, the beautiful capital of the Brazilian State of the same name, about seventeen years ago, to take charge of a group of factories situated about an hour's railway journey from the city, the latter had approximately inhabitants. The landlord of the hotel at which I stayed, who had attained the age of fifty, spent the whole of the day working in his office. Leaving the hotel sometimes at about five o'clock in the morning and returning about ten o'clock at night, I always found to my great astonishment mine host still at work. 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.