Author |
: Joseph Jacobs |
Publisher |
: VM eBooks |
Total Pages |
: 169 |
Release |
: 2016-07-06 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Story of Geographical Discovery by : Joseph Jacobs
Download or read book The Story of Geographical Discovery written by Joseph Jacobs and published by VM eBooks. This book was released on 2016-07-06 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How was the world discovered? That is to say, how did a certain set of men who lived round the Mediterranean Sea, and had acquired the art of recording what each generation had learned, become successively aware of the other parts of the globe? Every part of the earth, so far as we know, has been inhabited by man during the five or six thousand years in which Europeans have been storing up their knowledge, and all that time the inhabitants of each part, of course, were acquainted with that particular part: the Kamtschatkans knew Kamtschatka, the Greenlanders, Greenland; the various tribes of North American Indians knew, at any rate, that part of America over which they wandered, long before Columbus, as we say, "discovered" it.