A Book of Discovery: The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole — John Shaqi
A Book of Discovery: The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South PoleSynge, M. B. (Margaret Bertha)
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A Book of Discovery: The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole
Synge, M. B. (Margaret Bertha)
Discoveries in geography
Map of the World drawn in 1500, the first to show America . . . . 168
By JUAN DE LA COSA.
The Dauphin Map of the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Made by PIERRE DESCELLIERS 1546, by order of Francis I. for
the Dauphin (Henri II.) of France.
Barents's Ship among the Arctic Ice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
From a coloured woodcut in Barents's _Three Voyages_
(De Veer), published in 1598.
Ross's Winter Quarters in Felix Harbour . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
The First Communication With Eskimos at Boothia Felix, 1830 . . . 404
From Drawings by ROSS in the _Narrative of his Expedition to
the North Magnetic Pole, A Second Voyage in Search of a
North-West Passage_, 1829-33.
Shackleton's Ship, the _Nimrod_, among the Ice in McMurdo Sound . 538
From _The Heart of the Antarctic_ (published by Heinemann), by
kind permission of Sir ERNEST SHACKLETON.
BLACK & WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS
FACING PAGE
The Unrolling of the Clouds: the World as known at the time of
Homer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
The Unrolling of the Clouds: the World as known at the time of
Ptolemy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
The Unrolling of the Clouds: the World as known at the end of
the 13th century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
The Best Portrait of Columbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
From the original Painting by an unknown artist in the Naval
Museum, Madrid.
The Unrolling of the Clouds: the World as known at the time of
Columbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Amerigo Vespucci . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
From the Sculpture by GRAZZINI at the Uffizi Gallery,
Florence.
Ferdinand Magellan, the first Circumnavigator . . . . . . . . . . 198
From the Engraving by FERDINAND SELMA.
Sir Francis Drake, the first Englishman to sail round the World . 252
After the Engraving attributed to HONDIUS.
The Unrolling of the Clouds: the World as known at the time of
Drake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Karakakova Bay, where Captain Cook was murdered . . . . . . . . . 334
From the Engraving in the Atlas to COOK'S _Voyages_.
The Unrolling of the Clouds: the World as known at the time of
Cook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Mungo Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
From the Engraving in PARK'S _Travels into the Interior of
Africa_, 1799.
Search for a North-West Passage: Parry's Ships cutting through
the Ice into Winter Harbour, 1819 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
From a Drawing by WILLIAM WESTALL, A.R.A., of a Sketch by
Lieut. BEECHEY, a member of the expedition. From PARRY'S
_Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of the North-West
Passage_.
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