William Desborough Cooley (1795 1883) was a geographer and
historian, the author of a collection of influential texts on the
development of geographical study, and a key founding member of the
Hakluyt Society. First published as a complete set in 1831 as part
of Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia, this is the history in
three volumes of the development of the geographical sciences
through travel and exploration. Each volume is divided
chronologically by historical era, tracing the pursuit of
geographical discovery by both land and sea from the Roman Empire
to the Himalayan expeditions of the early nineteenth century.
Featuring a comprehensive index, this expertly compiled reference
text will aid any study of the history of travel and exploration.
This first volume covers the period spanning the ancient Greeks to
the Middle Ages. Highlights include sections on the development of
cartography and the relationship between geography and commerce.
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