General History And Collection of Voyages And Travels Arranged in Systematic Order
Subtitle: Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, ... From The Earliest Ages To The Present Tim
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 17, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9781419101311
Subjects: Travel writing; Essays & Travelogues; Travel - General; Travel
First sentence: In the midst of the profound ignorance and barbarism which overspread the nations of Western Europe, after the dissolution of the Roman empire in the West, a transient ray of knowledge and good government was elicited by the singular genius of the great Alfred, a hero, legislator, and philosopher, among a people nearly barbarous.