UID:
almafu_9960117675802883
Format:
1 online resource (xxviii, 398 pages) :
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illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-70847-5
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Travel and exploration
Content:
The publications of the Hakluyt Society made available edited early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, & covering voyages to the New World, to China & Japan, to Russia & to Africa & India. This volume, first published in 1897, contains the first English translation of the Greek monk Cosmas Indicopleustes' description of the universe & of his voyages to India, written c.550 C.E. His vivid descriptions of India, Sri Lanka & Ethiopia provide invaluable information on vanished monuments & cultures, though his book also insistently proposes that the earth is flat & denounces the 'Pagans' (mainstream ancient philosophers including Ptolemy) who, like most of Cosmas' Christian contemporaries, argued in favour of a spherical earth.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2010.
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Originally published: London: The Hakluyt, 1897.
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Translated from a Latin translation of the original Ancient Greek.
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Includes index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-108-01295-7
Language:
English
