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Roberts, Gail. Atlas of Discovery. Introduction by Sir Francis Chichester. Maps by Geographical Projects.
New York: crown Publishers, Inc., [1973].
Quarto, blue cloth, gilt letters, glossy pages, full-color maps and illus., 192 pp. Very Good+, with slight edgewear and foxing (age darkening) to endpapers, in a like dust jacket. Ò...Tells the story of exploration from the very earliest times to the present day. The first three chapters are organized chronologically, from the first wanderings of primitive men, and civilization's earliest recorded journeys, up to the first circumnavigation of the world in A. D. 1519-22. Then, through chapters 4 to 11, the story unfolds geographically, region by region. The final chapters, 12 and 13, deal with exploration of different kinds - man's investigation of the oceans, and his first ventures into space. At the beginning of each of the first 11 chapters -- those dealing with geographical exploration -- an illuminated globe highlights in blue the areas where the journeys described in that chapter took place, and on the relief maps in these chapters the areas of interest are highlighted in green. To make cross reference between maps and text easier, the name of each explorer whose journey is mapped is printed in bold type."
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