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Preface and Introduction
11:03 -
Chapter I: The World as Known to the Ancients
24:46 -
Chapter II: The Spread of Conquest in the Ancient World
17:34 -
Chapter III: Geography in the Dark Ages
26:43 -
Chapter IV: Mediaeval Travels
19:33 -
Chapter V: Roads and Commerce
23:52 -
Chapter VI: To the Indies Eastward - Prince Henry and Vasco da Gama
32:48 -
Chapter VII: To the Indies Westward - the Spanish Route - Columbus and Magellan
37:17 -
Chapter VIII: To the Indies Northward - English, French, Dutch and Russian Routes
16:39 -
Chapter IX: The Partition of America
22:59 -
Chapter X: Australia and the South Seas - Tasman and Cook
22:57 -
Chapter XI: Exploration and Partition of Africa - Park - Livingstone - Stanley
21:08 -
Chapter XII: The Poles - Franklin - Ross - Nordenskjold - Nansen
28:39
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Spices, sea routes and changing maps give Joseph Jacobs a way to explain how geographical knowledge spread. Published in 1898, this history connects major voyages with trade, especially the European search for the Spice Islands. Its chapters move through ancient geography, medieval travellers, ocean navigation and polar exploration. Maps show how ideas about the shape and position of lands developed, while a chronological appendix gathers voyages and the works that recorded them.
Jacobs begins by recognising that people already knew the places Europeans later claimed to discover. He gives examples of local mapmakers, including Tupaia, whose chart showed Pacific islands across a wide stretch of ocean. The account of Columbus then follows compass observations, uncertain distances and signs of approaching land. Readers interested in the history of maps can examine how practical navigation, commercial hopes and inherited assumptions shaped the information travellers brought home.
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