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Introduction
简介： This is not a history of geographical exploration, though the leading episodes in the advance of our knowledge of the face of the Earth are necessarily referred to in tracing the evolution of geography as a department of science. That is the object o...
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Chapter XIV.
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Chapter XIII. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER: THE POLES
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Chapter XII. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER: ASIA AND AUSTRALIA
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Chapter XI. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: AFRICAN RESEARCH
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Chapter X. MEASUREMENT, CARTOGRAPHY, AND THEORY, 1500–1800
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Chapter IX. JAMES COOK AND HIS SUCCESSORS
Chapter List
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PREFACE
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Chapter I. BEGINNINGS
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Chapter II. THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE GREEKS AND ROMANS
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Chapter III. THE DARK AGE
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Chapter IV. THE MEDI?VAL RENASCENCE
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Chapter V. PORTUGUESE EXPANSION AND THE REVIVAL OF PTOLEMY
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Chapter VI. THE NEW WORLD
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Chapter VII. THE FAR EAST AND THE DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA
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Chapter VIII. POLAR EXPLORATION TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
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Chapter IX. JAMES COOK AND HIS SUCCESSORS
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Chapter X. MEASUREMENT, CARTOGRAPHY, AND THEORY, 1500–1800
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Chapter XI. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: AFRICAN RESEARCH
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Chapter XII. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER: ASIA AND AUSTRALIA
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Chapter XIII. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER: THE POLES
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Chapter XIV.