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The Story of Geographical Discovery

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Page 50 regarded as spreading out right and left perpendicularly, thus dividing the top part of the world, or Asia, from the lower part, divided equally between Europe on the left and Africa on the right. The size of the Mediterranean Sea, it will be seen, thus determined the dimensions of the three continents. One of the chief errors to which this led was to cut off the whole of the south of Africa, which rendered it seemingly a short voyage round that continent on the way to India. As we shall see, this error had important and favourable results on geographical discovery.


GEOGRAPHICAL MONSTERS

Another result of this conception of the world as a T within an O, was to expand Asia to an enormous extent; and as this was a part of the world which was less known to the monkish map-makers of the Middle Ages, they were obliged to fill out their ignorance by their imagination. Hence they located in Asia all the legends which they. . . Read More

Community Reviews

4.00
- Darthnixa - Sep 12, 2013

A great historical overview, that provides the reader with both context and information necessary to understand the scope of Man's epic five-thousand-year journey around the globe.

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- Yanko - Jan 24, 2015

It's interesting to point out that in 1898, when this book was first published, there were still some minor blank spots on Earth's surface that remained unexplored. Another interesting thing is that Joseph Jacobs is a folklorist, and not necessarily a historian, which is what probably makes this boo

5.00
- Amogh - Oct 19, 2015

Beautiful book, very informative. Shows the curios side of mankind with respect to Geography and exploration. Loved the way in which he various discoveries are described.

A really good read if you are interested in how the world was discovered from the European perspective. Thanks to my friend who re

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