Celebrated Travels And Travellers Part 1 The Exploration Of The

The letters and narratives of Columbus and his companions, especially those dwelling upon the large quantity of gold and pearls found in the recently discovered countries, had i...

Discovery of Madeira, Cape de Verd Islands, the Azores, Congo, and Guinea--Bartholomew Diaz--Cabot and Labrador--The geographical and commercial tendencies of the middle ages--T...

Pytheas had opened up the road to the north to the Scandinavians by discovering Iceland (the famous Thule) and the _Cronian_ Ocean, of which the mud, the shallow-water, and the...

Covilham and Paiva--Vasco da Gama--The Cape of Good Hope is doubled--Escales at Sam-Braz--Mozambique, Mombaz, and Melinda-- Arrival at Calicut--Treason of the Zamorin--Battles--...

The interest of the Genoese and Venetian merchants in encouraging the exploration of Central Asia--The family of Polo, and its position in Venice--Nicholas and Matteo Polo, the...

Magellan--His early history--His disappointment--His change of nationality--Preparations for the expedition--Rio de Janeiro--St. Julian's Bay--Revolt of a part of the squadron--...

Distinguishing characteristics of the Seventeenth Century--The more thorough exploration of regions previously discovered--To the thirst for gold succeeds Apostolic zeal--Italia...

William Dampier was born in 1612 at East Coker, and by the death of his parents was from his childhood left to his own control. Not possessing any great taste for study, he pref...

A very poor cottage at Tavistock in Devonshire was the birthplace in 1540, of Francis Drake, who was destined to gain millions by his indomitable courage, which however, he lost...

The Scandinavians in the North, Iceland and Greenland--Benjamin of Tudela visits Marseilles, Rome, Constantinople, the Archipelago, Palestine, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Damascus, Ba...

The Norman cavalier--His ideas of conquest--What was known of the Canary Islands--Cadiz--The Canary Archipelago--Graciosa-- Lancerota--Fortaventura--Jean de Bethencourt returns...

Hanno, the Carthaginian--Herodotus visits Egypt, Lybia, Ethiopia, Phoenicia, Arabia, Babylon, Persia, India, Media, Colchis, the Caspian Sea, Scythia, Thrace, and Greece--Pythea...

Pliny, Hippalus, Arian, and Ptolemy--Pausanias visits Attica, Corinth, Laconia, Messenia, Elis, Achaia, Arcadia, Boeotia, and Phocis--Fa-Hian explores Kan-tcheou, Tartary, North...

Ibn Batuta--The Nile--Gaza, Tyre, Tiberias, Libanus, Baalbec, Damascus, Meshid, Bussorah, Baghdad, Tabriz, Mecca and Medina-- Yemen--Abyssinia--The country of the Berbers--Zangu...

Discovery of Madeira, Cape de Verd Islands, the Azores, Congo, and Guinea--Bartholomew Diaz--Cabot and Labrador--The geographical and commercial tendencies of the middle ages--T...

Map of the East Coast of Africa, from the Cape of Good Hope to the Cape del Gado. From the French map of the Eastern Ocean, published in 1740 by order of the Comte de Maurepas.

HOJEDA--AMERICUS VESPUCIUS--JUAN DE LA COSA--YANEZ PINZON--DIAZ DE SOLIS--PONCE DE LEON--BALBOA--GRIJALVA--CORTES--PIZARRO--ALMAGRO-- ALVARADO--ORELLANA--MAGELLAN--ERIC THE RED-...

The interest of the Genoese and Venetian merchants in encouraging the exploration of Central Asia--The family of Polo, and its position in Venice--Nicholas and Matteo Polo, the...

Hojeda--Americus Vespucius--The New World named after him--Juan de la Cosa--Vincent Yanez Pinzon--Bastidas--Diego de Lepe--Diaz de Solis--Ponce de Leon and Florida--Balboa disco...

The Norman cavalier--His ideas of conquest--What was known of the Canary Islands--Cadiz--The Canary Archipelago--Graciosa-- Lancerota--Fortaventura--Jean de Bethencourt returns...

Pliny, Hippalus, Arian, and Ptolemy--Pausanias visits Attica, Corinth, Laconia, Messenia, Elis, Achaia, Arcadia, Boeotia, and Phocis--Fa-Hian explores Kan-tcheou, Tartary, North...

PAGE Hanno, the Carthaginian--Herodotus visits Egypt, Lybia, Ethiopia, Phoenicia, Arabia, Babylon, Persia, India, Media, Colchis, the Caspian Sea, Scythia, Thrace, and Greece--P...

Covilham and Paiva--Vasco da Gama--The Cape of Good Hope is doubled--Escales at Sam-Braz--Mozambique, Mombaz, and Melinda-- Arrival at Calicut--Treason of the Zamorin--Battles--...

The Scandinavians in the North, Iceland and Greenland--Benjamin of Tudela visits Marseilles, Rome, Constantinople, the Archipelago, Palestine, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Damascus, Ba...

Distinguishing characteristics of the Seventeenth Century--The more thorough exploration of regions previously discovered--To the thirst for gold succeeds Apostolic zeal--Italia...

Magellan--His early history--His disappointment--His change of nationality--Preparations for the expedition--Rio de Janeiro-- St. Julian's Bay--Revolt of a part of the squadron-...

Hudson and Baffin--Champlain and La Sale--The English upon the coast of the Atlantic--The Spaniards in South America--Summary of the information acquired at the close of the 17t...

John Verrazzano--Jacques Cartier and his three voyages to Canada--The town of Hochelaga--Tobacco--The scurvy--Voyage of Roberval--Martin Frobisher and his voyages--John Davis--B...

Ibn Batuta--The Nile--Gaza, Tyre, Tiberias, Libanus, Baalbec, Damascus, Meshid, Bussorah, Baghdad, Tabriz, Mecca and Medina-- Yemen--Abyssinia--The country of the Berbers--Zangu...