Abstract
EXPLORATION has provided the material out of which a science of geography has been created. The gradual expansion of man's knowledge of the earth, obtained by voyages of discovery and journeys of travel, has been followed at every stage by a development of geography as a scientific subject. The workers in the study and the map-room have slowly absorbed the results of exploration into the common stock of knowledge and welded them into a system. It is therefore possible to write a history of two parallel developments; on one hand, the history of exploration, and on the other, the history of geographical thought and ideas. As the two subjects are closely related to one another, it is appropriate that two books dealing with these distinct aspects of geography should be discussed together.
(1) A History of Exploration: from the Earliest Times to the Present Day.
By Brig.-General Sir Percy Sykes. Pp.xiv + 374 + 25 plates. (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1934.) 25s. net.
(2) The Making of Geography.
By R. E. Dickinson O. J. R. Howarth. Pp. vi + 264 + 5 plates. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1933.) 8s. 6d. net.
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G., E. (1) A History of Exploration: from the Earliest Times to the Present Day (2) The Making of Geography. Nature 133, 666–667 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133666a0
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