The History of Maritime and Inland Discovery
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration; Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781108011662; 9781108013413; 9781108011679
Notes: Digitalt optryk af udgave fra 1831.
Table of contents: title: Volume I: Book I. Geography of the Ancients: 1. Introduction; 2. The Greeks; title: Homeric age; 3. Greeks continued; title: Historic age; 4. The Greeks continued; 5. Greeks continued; 6. The Greeks continued; 7. Discovery of the monsoons; 8. Ptolemy; 9. On the commerce of the ancients; 10. Mythic geography of the Hindoos, and its connections with Grecian myths; Book II. Geography of the Middle Ages: 1. The Arabians; 2. Travels of Ibn Batuta; 3. Travels of Ibn Batuta continued; Book III. Progress of Geography in the Middle Ages: 1. Discoveries of the northmen; 2. Maps of the middle ages; 3. Journey of Carpini into Tartary; 4. Travels of Rubruquis; 5. Travels of Marco Polo; 6. Travels of Marco Polo continued; 7. Oderic of Portenau; 8. Embassy of Clavijo; 9. Early discoveries of the Portuguese; 10. The passage by the Cape discovered; title: Volume II: Book IV. Modern Voyages of Discovery, from Columbus to Captain Cook: 1. Columbus; 2. Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci; 3. Early discoveries in America; 4 Spanish discoveries, and first circumnavigation of the earth; 5. Fernando Cortez; 6. Conquest of Peru; 7. Conquests of the Spaniards; 8. Conquests of th Portuguese; 9. Ferdinand Menez Pinto; 10. Voyages to the north; 11. Voyages to the north; 12. Voyages to the north; 13. Settlements in the east; 14. Settlements in North America; 15. Establishments in Africa; 16. Voyages to the South Sea; 17. Voyages to the South Sea; 18. Voyages in the Pacific, and discovery of Australia; 19. Expeditions of the buccaneers in the South Sea; 20 Voyages of privateers and others to the South Sea; 21. Discoveries of the Russians; 22. Discoveries of the Russians; title: Volume III: Book V: 1. Progress of geographical science; 2. Voyages of Byron, Wallis, Carteret, etc.; 3. Cook's first voyage; 4. Cook's second voyage; 5. Cook's third voyage; 6. Cook's third voyage continued; 7. Voyage of La Perouse, etc.; 8. Europeans in the South Sea.