كتاب
The extraordinary voyage of Pytheas the Greek
| العنوان: | The extraordinary voyage of Pytheas the Greek |
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| المؤلفون: | Cunliffe, Barry, 1939- |
| بيانات النشر: | London : Allen Lane, 2001. |
| سنة النشر: | 2001 |
| وصف مادي: | ix, 182 p. : maps ; 23 cm. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Ocean travel. |
| Subject Person: | Pytheas, of Massalia -- Journeys -- Europe, Northern. |
| جغرافية الموضوع: | Europe, Northern -- Discovery and exploration -- Greek. |
| الوصف: | "Some 2,300 or more years ago an amazing expedition, headed by Pytheas, set out from the Greek colony of Massalia (Marseilles) to explore the terrifying, fabled lands of northern Europe: a mysterious, largely conjectural zone which, according to Greek science, was too cold to sustain human life." "Pytheas was the Ancient World's Columbus. He was the first literate man ever to visit the British Isles, the German coast and the Hebrides, even travelling on to Iceland and the edge of the ice-pack. Even more startlingly, there was no follow-up to his journey. Britain remained without further explorers until Julius Caesar and his legions landed there 300 years later." "Barry Cunliffe knows perhaps more than anyone about the world through which Pytheas travelled and, like a detective, he here pieces together how Pytheas viewed his world. All our knowledge of the journey is indirect (Pytheas' own account was destroyed, probably in the burning of the Great Library at Alexandria) but, through sifting the archaeological and written records, Cunliffe re-creates this staggering journey."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Original Identifier: | ocm59531891 ocm47231362 G88.P9 C86 2001 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-7139-9509-1 0-7139-9509-2 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.008787739.2 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
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