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A Book of Discovery

by M. B. SYNGE (1861 - 1939)

Travellers to the East

Telling the history of geographical discoveries, "Book of Discovery" is a record of splendid endurance, of hardships bravely borne, of silent toil, of courage and resolution unequalled in the annals of mankind, of self-sacrifice unrivalled and faithful lives laid ungrudgingly down. Of the many who went forth, the few only attained. It is of these few that this book tells. (From the Preface of the book).

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Listen next episodes of A Book of Discovery:
A Great New World , Baffin Finds His Bay , Baker Finds Albert Nyanza , Balboa Sees the Pacific Ocean , Barents Sails to Spitzbergen , Bartholomew Diaz Reaches the Stormy Cape , Behring Finds His Straight , Bruce's Travels in Abyssinia , Burton and Speke in Central Africa , Cabot Sails to Newfoundland , Champlain Discovers Lake Ontario , Christopher Columbus , Cook Discovers New Zealand , Cook's Third Voyage and Death , Cortes Explores and Conquers Mexico , Dampier Discovers His Straight , Dates of Chief Events , David Livingstone , Davis Straight , Discovery of the Spice Islands , Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World , Early Discoverers of Australia , Expedition to Victoria Nyanza , Explorers in South America , Flinders Names Australia , Franklin Discovers the North-West Passage , Franklin's Land Voyage to the North , Frobisher Searches for a North-West Passage , Hudson Finds His Bay , Jacques Cartier Explores Canada , Landers Discover the Mouth of the Niger , Livingston Traces Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa , Livingstone's Last Journey , Mackenzie and His River , Magellan Sails Round the World , Marco Polo , Mediaeval Maps , Mungo Park and the Niger , Nansen Reaches Farthest North , Nordenskiold Finds North-East Passage , Parry Discovers Lancaster Sound , Parry's Polar Voyage , Peary Reaches the North Pole , Prince Henry of Portugal , Ross Discovers the North Magnetic Pole , Ross Makes Discoveries in the Antarctic Seas , Search For a North-West Passage , Sir Walter Raleigh Searches for El Dorado , Sturt's Discoveries in Australia , Tasman Finds Tasmania , The End of Mediaeval Exploration , The Exploration of Tibet , The Frozen North , The Quest for the South Pole , The Search for Timbuktu , Through the Dark Continent , Vancouver Discovers His Island , Vasco da Gama Reaches India