A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 / Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
PART I.
Voyages and Travels of Discovery in the middle ages; from the era of Alfred King of England, in the ninth century, to that of Don Henry of Portugal, at the commencement of the fifteenth century.
PART II.
General Voyages and Travels, chiefly of Discovery; from the era of Don Henry in 1412, to that of George III. in 1760.
PART III.
General Voyages and Travels of Discovery during the era of George III., which were conducted upon scientific principles, and by which the Geography of the globe has been nearly perfected.
PART IV.
Historical Deduction of the Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest times to the present period.
Discovery of Iceland by the Norwegians.
Voyages of Ohthere to the White Sea and the Baltic.
Remarks on the situation of Sciringe-heal and Haethum, by J.R. Forster.
Voyage of Wulfstein in the Baltic.
Robert Kerr
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GENERAL PLAN OF KERR'S COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS.
(Taken from Volume 18.)
CONTENTS
TABULAR VIEW OF THE CONTENTS OF THE SEVENTEEN VOLUMES.
VOLUME I.
VOLUME II.
VOLUME III.
VOLUME IV.
VOLUME V.
VOLUME VI.
VOLUME VII.
VOLUME VIII.
VOLUME IX.
VOLUME X.
VOLUME XI.
VOLUME XII.
VOLUME XIII.
VOLUME XIV.
VOLUME XV.
VOLUME XVI.
VOLUME XVII.
VOYAGES AND TRAVELS,
PREFACE.
GENERAL PLAN OF THE WORK.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.
PART I.
VOYAGES AND TRAVELS OF DISCOVERY, FROM THE ERA OF ALFRED, KING OF ENGLAND, IN THE NINTH CENTURY; TO THE ERA OF DON HENRY, PRINCE OF PORTUGAL, AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
END OF VOLUME FIRST.