Project Gutenberg 2004-10-05 Public domain in the USA. 99 Kerr, Robert 1755 1813 Stevenson, William 1772 1829 A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson Reading ease score: 51.9 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. Produced by Robert Connal and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team, from images generously made available by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions. "A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18" by Robert Kerr et al. is a historical account written in the early 19th century. This comprehensive work systematically explores the evolution of navigation, discovery, and commerce across both sea and land from ancient times through the early 19th century. The volume aims to detail the progression of human exploration and trade, highlighting significant commercial enterprises and discoveries that shaped the world. The opening of this volume presents an engaging preface and historical sketch that delves into the early interactions of ancient civilizations with maritime commerce, specifically focusing on the Phoenicians, Egyptians, and Israelites. It outlines the geographical contexts that influenced these nations' trading and navigational practices and reflects on the development of navigation as a science intertwined with commerce. The text emphasizes how early trade was a driving force behind the discovery of new lands and the establishment of routes, establishing a foundation for the more extensive accounts that will follow in the book. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Voyages and travels G Text Browsing: History - General Browsing: Travel & Geography 1697938 1697709 2024-10-06T08:55:23.141899 2023-10-06T09:54:28.689560 text/html text/html 1696166 2020-12-18T08:49:21 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 587009 2020-12-18T08:49:21 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 705638 2024-10-06T08:55:39.872954 application/epub+zip 731211 2024-10-06T08:55:27.505815 application/epub+zip 678361 2024-10-06T08:55:25.967838 application/epub+zip 1301821 2024-10-06T08:55:49.822741 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1276068 2024-10-06T08:55:38.810796 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1035367 2022-09-07T03:10:22.705736 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1670589 1670418 2024-10-06T08:55:21.152845 2023-10-06T09:54:26.996534 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 1670031 2020-12-18T08:49:21 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 582088 2020-12-18T08:49:21 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1670618 2020-12-18T08:49:21 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 581585 2020-12-18T08:49:21 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22045 2024-10-06T08:55:49.962721 application/rdf+xml 25559 2024-10-06T08:55:26.546816 image/jpeg 4808 2024-10-06T08:55:26.260817 image/jpeg 697314 2024-10-06T08:55:23.276881 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia