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Page 18
... oceanic interest , on the other hand , and the promotion of discovery in unknown regions , were in a dif- ferent category , with a natural appeal only to a small minority . It is remarkable how few traces the American discoveries of the ...
... oceanic interest , on the other hand , and the promotion of discovery in unknown regions , were in a dif- ferent category , with a natural appeal only to a small minority . It is remarkable how few traces the American discoveries of the ...
Page 44
... oceanic money - making found readers , but oceanic history as such lost its hold on a public whose historical outlook had become political amid the revolutions of the Stuart period . Hakluyt was less read . The Voyages were remembered ...
... oceanic money - making found readers , but oceanic history as such lost its hold on a public whose historical outlook had become political amid the revolutions of the Stuart period . Hakluyt was less read . The Voyages were remembered ...
Page 45
... oceanic history as an essential chapter in the record of mankind . The synthesis of oceanic history and the broadening of the historical conspectus of the modern world have been the work of the past fifty years . We have seen taking ...
... oceanic history as an essential chapter in the record of mankind . The synthesis of oceanic history and the broadening of the historical conspectus of the modern world have been the work of the past fifty years . We have seen taking ...
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