Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 1

Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 1. - The Exploration of the World

This narrative will comprehend not only all the explorations made in past ages, but also all the new discoveries which have of late years so greatly interested the scientific world. In order to give to this workenlarged perforce by the recent labours of modern travellers,all the accuracy possible, I have called in the aid of a man whom I with justice regard as one of the most competent geographers of the present day: M. Gabriel Marcel, attached to the Bibliothque Nationale. With the advantage of his acquaintance with several foreign languages which are unknown to me, we have been able to go to the fountain-head, and to derive all information from absolutely original documents. Our readers will, therefore, render to M. Marcel the credit due to him for his share in a work which will demonstrate what manner of men the great travellers have been, from the time of Hanno and Herodotus down to that of Livingstone and Stanley. The first traveller of whom we have any account in history, is Hanno, who was sent by the Carthaginian senate to colonize some parts of the Western coast of Africa. The account of this expedition was written in the Carthaginian language and afterwards translated into Greek. It is known to us now by the name of the "Periplus of Hanno." At what period this explorer lived, historians are not agreed, but the most probable account assigns the date B.C. 505 to his exploration of the African coast. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 24777
Author: Verne, Jules
Release Date: Mar 7, 2008
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Benett, Léon, 1838-1917 , Philippoteaux, Paul, 1846-1923
Translator: Leigh, Dora