A Book of Discovery. M. B. Synge
LII
COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS
| Ptolemy's Map of the World about A.D. 150 | |
| Taken from the first printed edition of 1472 and the Rome edition of 1508. | |
| The Polos leaving Venice for their Travels to the Far East | |
| From a Miniature at the head of a late 14th century MS. of the Travels of Marco Polo, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. | |
| The Hereford Mappa Mundi of 1280 | |
| The original, made by RICHARD DE HALDINGHAM, Prebendary of Hereford, hangs in the Chapter House Library, Hereford Cathedral. | |
| Map of the World drawn in 1500, the first to show America | |
| By JUAN DE LA COSA. | |
| The Dauphin Map of the World | |
| Made by PIERRE DESCELLIERS 1546, by order of Francis I. for the Dauphin (Henri II.) of France. | |
| Barents's Ship among the Arctic Ice | |
| From a coloured woodcut in Barents's Three Voyages (De Veer), published in 1598. | |
| Ross's Winter Quarters in Felix Harbour | |
| The First Communication With Eskimos at Boothia Felix, 1830 | |
| From Drawings by ROSS in the Narrative of his Expedition to the North Magnetic Pole, A Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, 1829–33. | |
| Shackleton's Ship, the Nimrod, among the Ice in McMurdo Sound | |
| From The Heart of the Antarctic (published by Heinemann), by kind permission of Sir ERNEST SHACKLETON. | |
BLACK & WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS
Acknowledgment is due to the courtesy of Mr. John Murray and the Illustrated London News for the photograph taken at the South Pole; to Admiral Peary for that taken at the North Pole; and to Sir Ernest Shackleton and Mr. Heinemann for the colour-plate of the Nimrod. Permissions have also been granted by Mr. John Murray (for illustrations from Livingstone's books and Admiral McClintock's Voyage of the Fox); by Messrs. Macmillan (for the colour-plate of the Polos leaving Venice, from the Bodleian); and by Messrs. Sampson, Low, Marston, & Co. (for illustrations from Sir H. M. Stanley's books).
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT
| The Garden of Eden with its Four Rivers | |
| From the Hereford Map of the World. | |
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