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قراءة كتاب A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole

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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

A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole

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Ptolemy's Map of the World about A.D. 150            Taken from the first printed edition of 1472 and the Rome edition of 1508.     The Polos leaving Venice for their Travels to the Far East   From a Miniature at the head of a late 14th century MS. of the Travels of Marco Polo, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.     The Hereford Mappa Mundi of 1280   The original, made by RICHARD DE HALDINGHAM, Prebendary of Hereford, hangs in the Chapter House Library, Hereford Cathedral.     Map of the World drawn in 1500, the first to show America   By JUAN DE LA COSA.     The Dauphin Map of the World   Made by PIERRE DESCELLIERS 1546, by order of Francis I. for the Dauphin (Henri II.) of France.     Barents's Ship among the Arctic Ice   From a coloured woodcut in Barents's Three Voyages (De Veer), published in 1598.     Ross's Winter Quarters in Felix Harbour     The First Communication With Eskimos at Boothia Felix, 1830   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   From The Heart of the Antarctic (published by Heinemann), by kind permission of Sir ERNEST SHACKLETON.





BLACK & WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS

The Unrolling of the Clouds: the World as known at the time of Homer
   
The Unrolling of the Clouds: the World as known at the time of Ptolemy
   
The Unrolling of the Clouds: the World as known at the end of the 13th century
   
The Best Portrait of Columbus
           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
   
Amerigo Vespucci
  From the Sculpture by GRAZZINI at the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
   
Ferdinand Magellan, the first Circumnavigator
  From the Engraving by FERDINAND SELMA.
   
Sir Francis Drake, the first Englishman to sail round the World
  After the Engraving attributed to HONDIUS.
   
The Unrolling of the Clouds: the World as known at the time of Drake
   
Karakakova Bay, where Captain Cook was murdered
  From the Engraving in the Atlas to COOK'S Voyages.
   
The Unrolling of the Clouds: the World as known at the time of Cook
   
Mungo Park
  From the Engraving in PARK'S Travels into the Interior of Africa, 1799.
[Transcriber's note: This illustration has been lost.]
   
Search for a North-West Passage: Parry's Ships cutting through the Ice into Winter Harbour, 1819
  From a Drawing by

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