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This vast realm of geographical ignorance reduced European activity in the Outer World to an archipelago of settlements, mines and trading depots connected by a skein of pathways kept open only by constant effort.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000





Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
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Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
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