The Dawn of Modern Geography

Abstract

IN the present volume of Mr. Beazley's work on the beginnings of modern geography, the author takes us from the time of the irruption of the Northmen into the Middle Sea to the days of the first western travellers in the Far East, the precursors of the Polos. He traces the gradual and painful regaining by the semi-barbarians of the early Middle Age of the earth-knowledge which their civilised forefathers had possessed, but which had been lost during the Dark Ages, until all that had once been known was known again and renascent Europe stood on the brink of discoveries of which Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans had hardly dreamed; with Marco Polo, Prince Henry the Navigator and Columbus, the third part of Mr. Beazley's work will deal.

The Dawn of Modern Geography.

Part ii. A History of Exploration and Geographical Science from the close of the Ninth to the Middle of the Thirteenth Century (c. A.D. 900–1260). Pp. xix + 651. By C. Raymond Beazley (London: John Murray, 1901.) Price 18s.