Maritime discovery : a history of nautical exploration from the earliest times
Description: "Far other is my object in writing these introductory lines . Briefly, it is to point out that though Travels by Sea and Land have filled countless volumes, no compendious work has been published dealing with the great subject of Maritime Discovery in a complete, if necessarily succinct, form . I do not lay claim to any originality either in the matter of these volumes or its treatment. No ? hitherto unpublished manuscripts' have been un earthed by me, but I have merely had recourse to the vast tomes in which our forefathers delighted to bury their learning and research, and thence have disinterred a continuous record of nautical research. The volumes of Churchill, Pinkerton, Hakluyt, and other old writers, treating of voyages and discoveries, form a considerable library in themselves, and even later authors, compiling from these, are too diffuse for the present generation of readers, who prefer knowledge presented to them in a ' concentrated ' form , like the extracts of meat which compress the nutritious essence of a bullock into a single tin. This work, then, is in the nature of a survey, but, I believe, every voyage of discovery, with its results, has been recorded, and, I trust, the reader will consider the task ? which to me has been a congenial one, from a natural taste for geographical studies and some experience in this branch of literature - has been completed in an attractive form." -- Preface
Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "Far other is my object in writing these introductory lines . Briefly, it is to point out that though Travels by Sea and Land have filled countless volumes, no compendious…