Book: Voyages In Search Of The North-west Passage If you seek the advice herein of such as make profession in cosmography, Ptolemy, the father of geography, and his eldest children, will answer by their maps with a negative, concluding most of the sea within the land, and making an end of the world northward, near the 63rd degree. The same opinion, when learning chiefly flourished, was received in the Romans' time, as by their poets' writings it may appear.
Details of Book: Voyages In Search Of The North-west Passage Book: Voyages In Search Of The North-west Passage
Author: Richard Hakluyt
ISBN: 1847025226
ISBN-13: 9781847025227
, 978-1847025227
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 22092006
Publisher: Echo Library
Number of Pages: 100
Language: English