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THE volume on North America, which is slightly larger than the earlier volumes, completes this admirable series. Some fifteen notable journeys have been retold without the omission of any important facts and illustrated by carefully chosen pictures from many sources. Each tale has a small sketch map to itself, which are excellent examples of clear maps, with no more names than are needed to follow the text. The voyage of Jacques Cartier begins the book, which goes on to tell among others of Champlain, La Salle, Hudson, Hearne,Mackenzie, Lewes and Clark, Franklin, Peary, Erichsen and Mikkelsen. It is not a complete history of North American exploration, and is not intended to be such, but it is an admirable sketch of the chief stages in the story, and is bound to quicken interest in geography.
Adventures of Exploration, Book 6: North America.
Sir
John Scott
Keltie
Samuel Carter
Gilmour
By. Pp. iv + 228. (London: George Philip and Son, Ltd.; Liverpool: Philip, Son and Nephew, Ltd., n.d.) 2s. 6d.
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Adventures of Exploration, Book 6: North America. Nature 121, 241 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121241c0
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