O. J. R. Howarth

PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Chapter I. BEGINNINGS

Chapter II. THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE GREEKS AND ROMANS

Chapter III. THE DARK AGE

Chapter IV. THE MEDIAEVAL RENASCENCE

Chapter V. PORTUGUESE EXPANSION AND THE REVIVAL OF PTOLEMY

Chapter VI. THE NEW WORLD

Chapter VII. THE FAR EAST AND THE DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA

Chapter VIII. POLAR EXPLORATION TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

Chapter IX. JAMES COOK AND HIS SUCCESSORS

Chapter X. MEASUREMENT, CARTOGRAPHY, AND THEORY, 1500 - 1800

Chapter XI. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: AFRICAN RESEARCH

Chapter XII. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER: ASIA AND AUSTRALIA

Chapter XIII. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER: THE POLES

Chapter XIV. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER; EVOLUTION AND PROGRESS OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCE

SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GEOGRAPHY

INDEX

Transcriber's Notes

“A Missionary looking over the edge of the world at the point where Heaven and Earth meet.”

(From an old print.)

HISTORY OF
GEOGRAPHY

BY
J. SCOTT KELTIE, LL.D.,

SECRETARY OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY,

AND

O. J. R. HOWARTH, M.A.,

ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR
THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE

[ISSUED FOR THE RATIONALIST PRESS ASSOCIATION, LIMITED]

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1913