134pp. Lightly illustrated. Maps to endpapers. Hardback in yellow publisher's cloth (lightly rubbed at edges, rounded at corners). Occasional spotting. One page has a clipped corner. Previous owner's name on endpaper. Account of how, in ancient times, our ancestors began to explore the world -- when the world was indeed a very small place. Chapters on the mysterious land of Cathay; The New World in the West; Rounding the Cape; the first Circumnavigators; the Dark Continent; With Peary to the North Pole etc. Hard to find volume. 12vo
