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A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume VIII (Hardcover)
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A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume VIII (Hardcover)
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A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels by Robert
Kerr is an 18 volume set that contains the complete history of the
origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea
and land. In determining upon an era for the commencement of this
work, Kerr was led, from a consideration of the accidental
discovery of Iceland by the Norwegians in the ninth century, to
adopt that period as the beginning of the series, both because the
commencement of modern maritime discovery took place during the
reign of a British sovereign, and because we derive the earliest
written accounts of any of these discoveries from the pen of that
excellent prince. It is true that the first accidental discovery of
Iceland appears to have been made in 861, eleven years before the
accession of Alfred to the throne; yet, as the actual colonization
of that island did not take place till the year 878, the seventh of
his glorious reign, we have been induced to distinguish the actual
commencement of maritime discovery by the modern European nations
as coinciding with his era.
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