Abstract
THE appearance of yet another history of exploration may be taken to indicate a popular demand for such works and, if one may judge from some of his remarks, Mr. Outhwaite writes primarily for the general reader. He disarms criticism by confessing that he does not “pretend to refinement in historical scholarship” and generously acknowledges help both from distinguished scholars and from previously published works. As he frankly admits, there is little originality in his book. Its facts are in the main accurate, but he seems to have found the limitations of space very hampering, and many parts of the later chapters are little more than notes on explorers grouped under a general heading, such as “Others in Africa”. This limitation has other curious results, such as the inclusion of all the work of the Duke of the Abruzzi in the chapter on the Arctic, and the relegation of “mountain explorers” to an appendix to that chapter. These are perhaps mere faults of arrangement.
Unrolling the Map: the Story of Exploration
By Leonard Outhwaite. Pp. xiv + 351. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1935.) 16s. net.
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B., J. Unrolling the Map: the Story of Exploration. Nature 136, 701 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136701a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136701a0