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A Book of Discovery

A Book of Discovery

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Number of Chapters: 75

Length: 16 hours and 29 minutes

Language: English

Telling the history of geographical discoveries, "Book of Discovery" is a record of splendid endurance, of hardships bravely borne, of silent toil, of courage and resolution unequalled in the annals of mankind, of self-sacrifice unrivalled and faithful lives laid ungrudgingly down. Of the many who went forth, the few only attained. It is of these few that this book tells. (From the Preface of the book).

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Introduction (Kristine Bekere)
A Little Old World (Kristine Bekere)
Early Mariners (Kristine Bekere)
Is the World Flat (Kristine Bekere)
Herodotus—the Traveller (Kristine Bekere)
Alexander the Great Explores India (Kristine Bekere)
Pytheas Finds the British Isles (Kristine Bekere)
Julius Caesar as Explorer (Kristine Bekere)
Strabo's Geography (Kristine Bekere)
The Roman Empire and Pliny (Kristine Bekere)
Ptolemy's Maps (Kristine Bekere)
Pilgrim Travellers (Kristine Bekere)
Irish Explorers (Kristine Bekere)
After Mohammed (Kristine Bekere)
The Vikings Sail the Northern Seas (Kristine Bekere)
Arab Wayfarers (Kristine Bekere)
Travellers to the East (Kristine Bekere)
Marco Polo (Kristine Bekere)
The End of Mediaeval Exploration (Kristine Bekere)
Mediaeval Maps (Kristine Bekere)
Prince Henry of Portugal (Kristine Bekere)
Bartholomew Diaz Reaches the Stormy Cape (Kristine Bekere)
Christopher Columbus (Kristine Bekere)
A Great New World (Kristine Bekere)
Vasco da Gama Reaches India (Kristine Bekere)
Discovery of the Spice Islands (Kristine Bekere)
Balboa Sees the Pacific Ocean (Kristine Bekere)
Magellan Sails Round the World (Kristine Bekere)
Cortes Explores and Conquers Mexico (Kristine Bekere)
Explorers in South America (Kristine Bekere)
Cabot Sails to Newfoundland (Kristine Bekere)
Jacques Cartier Explores Canada (Kristine Bekere)
Search For a North-West Passage (Kristine Bekere)
Frobisher Searches for a North-West Passage (Kristine Bekere)
Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World (Kristine Bekere)
Davis Straight (Kristine Bekere)
Barents Sails to Spitzbergen (Kristine Bekere)
Hudson Finds His Bay (Kristine Bekere)
Baffin Finds His Bay (Kristine Bekere)
Sir Walter Raleigh Searches for El Dorado (Kristine Bekere)
Champlain Discovers Lake Ontario (Kristine Bekere)
Early Discoverers of Australia (Kristine Bekere)
Tasman Finds Tasmania (Kristine Bekere)
Dampier Discovers His Straight (Kristine Bekere)
Behring Finds His Straight (Kristine Bekere)
Cook Discovers New Zealand (Kristine Bekere)
Cook's Third Voyage and Death (Kristine Bekere)
Bruce's Travels in Abyssinia (Kristine Bekere)
Mungo Park and the Niger (Kristine Bekere)
Vancouver Discovers His Island (Kristine Bekere)
Mackenzie and His River (Kristine Bekere)
Parry Discovers Lancaster Sound (Kristine Bekere)
The Frozen North (Kristine Bekere)
Franklin's Land Voyage to the North (Kristine Bekere)
Parry's Polar Voyage (Kristine Bekere)
The Search for Timbuktu (Kristine Bekere)
Landers Discover the Mouth of the Niger (Kristine Bekere)
Ross Discovers the North Magnetic Pole (Kristine Bekere)
Flinders Names Australia (Kristine Bekere)
Sturt's Discoveries in Australia (Kristine Bekere)
Ross Makes Discoveries in the Antarctic Seas (Kristine Bekere)
Franklin Discovers the North-West Passage (Kristine Bekere)
David Livingstone (Kristine Bekere)
Burton and Speke in Central Africa (Kristine Bekere)
Livingston Traces Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa (Kristine Bekere)
Expedition to Victoria Nyanza (Kristine Bekere)
Baker Finds Albert Nyanza (Kristine Bekere)
Livingstone's Last Journey (Kristine Bekere)
Through the Dark Continent (Kristine Bekere)
Nordenskiold Finds North-East Passage (Kristine Bekere)
The Exploration of Tibet (Kristine Bekere)
Nansen Reaches Farthest North (Kristine Bekere)
Peary Reaches the North Pole (Kristine Bekere)
The Quest for the South Pole (Kristine Bekere)
Dates of Chief Events (Kristine Bekere)
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