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Seekers and Traders
Jules Verne
其他書名
The 16th and 17th Centuries
出版The Minerva Group, Inc., 2004
主題History / World
ISBN159107083X9781591070832
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=o1uLVBL_Wh4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In Seekers and Traders we have the brilliant romancer, Jules Verne, holding his fancy under control and speaking for once in simplest truthfulness. He who had so thoroughly read up in geographies and books of travel that he might make stories from them, was perhaps of all men best fitting for the task of telling in earnest what real men had really done in the demarcation of the world. In this volume there was no need for the writer to create romance. He had only to appreciate and make visible to others the romance which already existed in overflowing measure in the daring deeds of the great explorers.During the intervals of this work Verne was patiently gather fresh material for its completion. How seriously and thoroughly the labor of preparation was undertaken he himself points out for us. He says: ?In order to give this work all the accuracy possible, I have called in the aid of a man whom I with justice regard as one of the most competent geographers of the present day, M. Gabriel Marcel, attached to the BibliothPque Nationale. With the advantage of his acquaintance with several foreign languages which are unknown to me, we have been able to go to the fountain-head, and to draw all our information from absolutely original documents.?Contents:The Discoverers of Central AmericaThe First Voyage Round the WorldThe Polar Expeditions and the Search for the Northwest PassageVoyages of Adventure and Privateering WarfareMissionaries and SettlersMerchants and TouristsThe Pole and America