The Romance of Early Exploration

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The Author has been encouraged by the reception given to The Romance of Modern Exploration to write a companion volume on the adventures of early travelers and explorers. For conveniences' sake the period covered ends at A.D. 1600, a date sufficiently advanced to permit mention of the first polar expeditions in which English navigators played so important a part.

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queue_music Chapters 22

1 00 - Preface 2:47
2 01 - The Infancy of Exploration 33:30
3 02 - Journeys of the Pilgrims 35:19
4 03 - The Vikings 18:46
5 04 - The Missionary Friars 28:57
6 05 - The Story of Marco Polo 33:55
7 06 - The Friar Odoric 18:28
8 07 - The Travels of an Adventurous Moor 28:09
9 08 - The Search for an Ocean Way to India 26:51
10 09 - The Rounding of the Cape 29:17
11 10 - The Conquest of the Atlantic Ocean 41:22
12 11 - How America got its Name 22:29
13 12 - The Travels of an Italian Mohammedan 33:18
14 13 - The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean 28:41
15 14 - The First Circumnavigation of the Globe 31:27
16 15 - The First Descent of the Amazon 27:48
17 16 - Exploration in North Mexico and California 26:45
18 17 - Exploration of the St. Lawrence River 23:51
19 18 - The Search for a North-East Passage to Cathay 32:22
20 19 - The Travels of Mr. Anthony Jenkins in Russia and Persia 30:48
21 20 - Attempts to Find a North-West Passage Past America to the East 23:18
22 21 - The Adventures of an English Sailor in Africa 21:37