World Geographic Great Discovery

Author: Jiang Shouming
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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 hands, while incorporating the legendary tales and anecdotes related to the geographical discoveries of the Divine Land. Controversial theories and viewpoints are presented as suspicious and listed separately. It is a historical account of human exploration and understanding of the geographical world, as well as an epic of human challenges to themselves and the conquest of nature. The book adopts a combination of text and images, selecting nearly fifty significant geographical explorations and discoveries in human history from foreign countries, providing detailed introductions and recreations of the backgrounds, causes, processes, and outcomes of these explorations. It explains their historical significance and lessons. The focus is primarily on the exploration and understanding of the unknown extraterrestrial geographical world by Western civilizations since the Early Modern Period, while also including the geographical surveys and explorations of ancient Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, medieval Arabs, and Northern Germanic peoples. From the maritime exploration and overseas colonization of the ancient seafaring Phoenicians to the polar explorations and discoveries by Norwegian and British explorers, the subjects of this book span 3,000 years in time and cover seven continents and five oceans.