History of Geography
by Sir John Scott Keltie
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About this eBook
- Author
- Howarth, O. J. R. (Osbert John Radcliffe), 1877-1954
- Credits
- Produced by Turgut Dincer, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation
- Subject
- Geography -- History
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 58349
- Release Date
- November 25, 2018
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.HISTORY OF GEOGRAPHY
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.Chapter I. BEGINNINGS
- 6.Chapter II. THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE GREEKS AND ROMANS
- 7.Chapter III. THE DARK AGE
- 8.Chapter IV. THE MEDIÆVAL RENASCENCE
- 9.Chapter V. PORTUGUESE EXPANSION AND THE REVIVAL OF PTOLEMY
- 10.Chapter VI. THE NEW WORLD
- 11.Chapter VII. THE FAR EAST AND THE DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA
- 12.Chapter VIII. POLAR EXPLORATION TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY — (a) Arctic: The North-East and North-West Passages. — (b) Antarctic: the Great South Land.
- 13.Chapter IX. JAMES COOK AND HIS SUCCESSORS
- 14.Chapter X. MEASUREMENT, CARTOGRAPHY, AND THEORY, 1500–1800
- 15.Chapter XI. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: AFRICAN RESEARCH
- 16.Chapter XII. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER: ASIA AND AUSTRALIA
- 17.Chapter XIII. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER: THE POLES — (a) Arctic — (b) Antarctic.
- 18.Chapter XIV. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER; EVOLUTION AND PROGRESS OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCE
- 19.SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GEOGRAPHY
- 20.INDEX
- 21.Transcriber’s Notes
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