The Story of Geographical Discovery: How the World Became Known
Joseph Jacobs
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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How the map was filled in — Phoenicians, Ptolemy, the Norsemen, Marco Polo, Prince Henry, Columbus, Cook, Livingstone — set out as a single argument about what each age believed the earth to be. Joseph Jacobs, who edited English fairy tales, wrote it for a general series in 1899. He is good on the errors: what people expected to find shaped where they went. Fifty-nine plates, among them Turner and Church, trace the same voyaging instinct the text describes, from storm-tossed boats to the Taj Mahal.
How the map was filled in — Phoenicians, Ptolemy, the Norsemen, Marco Polo, Prince Henry, Columbus, Cook, Livingstone — set out as a single argument about what each age believed the earth to be. Joseph Jacobs, who edited English fairy tales, wrote it for a general series in 1899. He is good on th...
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Joseph Jacobs (1854–1916) was an Australian-born folklorist in London who rewrote the English fairy tales for children as the Grimms had rewritten the German, edited the Jewish Encyclopedia in New York, and did the statistical work that first showed the extent of the Russian pogroms.
Joseph Jacobs (1854–1916) was an Australian-born folklorist in London who rewrote the English fairy tales for children as the Grimms had rewritten the German, edited the Jewish Encyclopedia in New York, and did the statistical work that first showed the extent of the Russian pogroms.
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