Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Kingsway Geography Readers, Vol. 3: Travellers' Tales
Very often the b.b.c. Asks people to talk 10 the schools about their travels in far-off parts of the world. We are now going to suppose that there were wireless sets in early days and that when the old travellers came back home the b.b.c. Invited them to tell the children about their adventures. If this had been possible they would have said something like what is written in this book. In fact, a great deal of what is here set down is in the very words used by them or their companions, not over the wireless, of course, but in their letters or in other things that they wrote. To understand what is told it must be remem bered that, in the old days of the sailing-ships, the wind was very important to the sailors. They went forwards or backwards, quickly or Slowly, as the winds helped or hindered them. That is why they say so much about them, and why on some of the maps in this book, Showing which way they went, there are little arrows pointing out the direction of the winds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
