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The Story of Exploration Series. A Complete History of the Discovery of the Globe from the Earliest Records up to the present time. Edited by J. Scott-eltie, LL.D., Sec. R.G.S. Demy 8vo.
Price, per Volume, 7s. 6d. net.
The reception which every item of “The Story of Exploration” has met with at the hands of both the public and press is due to the fact that while each story is told in a manner likely to interest the general reader, it is at the same time sought to provide the student with a serious and trustworthy history of exploration, and with a summary of our knowledge of each region dealt with. A vast amount of information is condensed within a comparatively small compass, voluminous records collated and the results brought together in a concise and readable form.
Each volume of the series is complete and independent in itself, and is sold separately. The books are, however, published in uniform style and binding, and the entire series, when complete, will form what may be called a biographical history of the exploration of the world. Beginning with the earliest journeys of which records exist, and carrying their narratives down to the most recent discoveries, the several authors of the works that have so far appeared have told their allotted stories fully and with the utmost historical accuracy.
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The Penetration of Arabia. D. G. Hogarth, M.A. With over Fifty Illustrations and Maps; and also two large Maps in Colour by J. G. Bartholomew.
“It is a literary, scientific, and, we may add, a political gain to be placed in possession of a standard work describing the exploration of Arabia.”—The Athenæum.
“Mr. Hogarth rises to true eloquence, and speaks with freedom and mastery. There is strength and justice, moreover, in his judgments of men. It is the first effective competitor that has appeared to Carl Ritter’s discussion of Arabian geography, now some fifty years old.”—The Times.
“A Summary—luminous and exact—of the literature of travel in that part of the world.... A scholarly survey of adventurous, though tardy, geographical research.”—The Standard.