Excerpt from Young People's History of the World: Containing Complete and Thrilling Accounts of the Heroes of History and Their Marvelous Achievements It has Often been said that the history Of Scotland is full of romance. Something bright and beautiful, Or sanguinary and tragic, is written on every page. The very glens echo the heroic deeds of the past. The shaded lakes are mirrors Of cloud and sky. But this land Of ours is quite as full of interest as any land beyond the sea, and many are the fields that have their tragic tale to tell of heroism and adventure. In the great struggle for human freedom we have patriots whose noble deeds are themes for splendid epics. Great explorations and discoveries are depicted in this volume, and the daring men who fought their Way through dark regions and terrible dangers are commemorated and made immortal. Voyages in the Polar world, and thrilling explorations in the Dark Continent, together with journeys in other lands, are here described in a manner so captivating that all readers are entranced. There is always a charm about deeds of heroism. They rouse the spirit of emulation; they inspire the young to grand effort and achievement they live in memory when less noble deeds are forgotten, and any volume, put into the hands of the young, that fires them with aspiration, has a value that cannot be estimated. 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.