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Not only was Britain connected to France, but land bridges also connected most of the islands of Indonesia and the Philippines to the mainland of Asia, a region referred to as Sunda or Sundaland. Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania formed one continent, called Sahul, and the straits separating Sunda from Sahul were narrow enough that people could
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But the journals and the collections were only part of what had been accomplished, only a beginning. Humboldt would spend the next thirty-odd years and virtually all his personal fortune publishing thirty monumental volumes under the general title Voyages aux Régions Equinoctiales du Nouveau Continent,
David McCullough • Brave Companions
Reporting Back to Queen Isabella
Written by Lorna Goodison
When Don Cristobal returned to a hero’s welcome,
his caravels corked with treasures of the New World,
he presented his findings; told of his great adventures
to Queen Isabella, whose speech set the gold standard
for her nation’s language. When he came to Xamaica
he described it so: ‘The fairest
after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues
Jules Verne • Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
Henrique lègue au Portugal la flotte la plus moderne, la meilleure de son époque, les plus habiles nautoniers pour vaincre l’océan.
Stefan Zweig • Magellan (French Edition)
In the company of a young French medical doctor turned botanist, Aime Bonpland, Humboldt had departed from La Coruña, Spain, in June 1799, on a Spanish frigate, slipping past a British blockade in the dark of night, in the midst of a storm, and carrying with him a unique document from the Spanish government. He and Bonpland had been granted
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