World Geographic Great Discovery

Author: Jiang Shouming, Gao Fangying (Associate Editor)
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This book is a popular reading with academic and cultural value, written by teaching and research personnel in relevant academic fields. The content is based on authentic historical records and widely accepted accounts of the history of geography, while blending the legends and anecdotes related to the geographic discoveries of the Chinese nation. Controversial theories and viewpoints are presented as suspicious and listed separately. It is a historical account of human exploration and understanding of the geographic world, as well as an epic of human challenges to themselves and the conquest of nature. The book adopts a combination of text and illustrations, selecting nearly fifty significant geographic explorations and discoveries in human history from foreign countries, providing detailed introductions and reproductions of the backgrounds, causes, processes, and outcomes of these explorations. It explains their historical significance and lessons. The book primarily focuses on the exploration and understanding of the unknown extraterrestrial geographic world by Western civilizations since the early modern period, while also including the geographic surveys and explorations of ancient Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, medieval Arabs, and Norse Germans. From the maritime exploration and overseas colonization of the ancient Phoenicians, one of the world's pioneering maritime peoples, to the explorations and discoveries of Norwegian and British explorers in the North and South Poles, the book covers a time span of 3,000 years and a geographical scope involving seven continents and five oceans. This book is a popular reading with academic and cultural value, written by teaching and research personnel in relevant academic fields. The content is based on authentic historical records and widely accepted accounts of the history of geography, while blending the legends and anecdotes related to the geographic discoveries of the Chinese nation. Controversial theories and viewpoints are presented as suspicious and listed separately. It is a historical account of human exploration and understanding of the geographic world, as well as an epic of human challenges to themselves and the conquest of nature.