Exploration & Journeys
Story of Geographical Discovery: How the World Became Known
Joseph Jacobs
2026
4h 51m$1.99
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Every map is a record of what somebody was willing to risk. Jacobs takes the whole story in one short volume: the ancient world's guesses, Ptolemy, the Arab geographers, the Vikings, the Portuguese working down the African coast, Columbus, the Pacific, the interiors, the poles. How the blank spaces closed, told with a clarity that makes the sequence feel inevitable, which it certainly was not.
Inside this audiobook
13 chapters
- 1Preface and Introduction11m
- 2Ch. 1 The World as Known to the Ancients26m
- 3Ch. 2 The Spread of conquest in the Ancient World18m
- 4Ch 3. Geography in the Dark Ages28m
- 5Ch. 4 Medieval Travels21m
- 6Ch. 5 Roads and Commerce19m
- 7Ch. 6 To the Indies Eastward23m
- 8Ch. 7 To the Indies Westward31m
- 9Ch. 8 To the Indies Northward16m
- 10Ch. 9 Partition of America22m
- 11Ch. 10 Australia and the South Seas23m
- 12Ch. 11 Exploration and Partition of Africa27m
- 13Ch. 12 The Poles27m
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