A Book of Discovery

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A Little Old World; Early Mariners; Is the World Flat; Herodotus-the Traveller; Alexander the Great Explores India; Pytheas Finds the British Isles; Julius Caesar as Explorer; Strabo’s Geography; The Roman Empire and Pliny; Ptolemy’s Maps; Pilgrim Travellers; Irish Explorers; After Mohammed; The Vikings Sail the Northern Seas; Arab Wayfarers; Travellers to the East; Marco Polo; The End of Mediaeval Exploration; Mediaeval Maps; Prince Henry of Portugal; Bartholomew Diaz Reaches the Stormy Cape; Christopher Columbus; A Great New World; Vasco da Gama Reaches India; Discovery of the Spice Islands; Balboa Sees the Pacific Ocean; Magellan Sails Round the World; Cortes Explores and Conquers Mexico; Explorers in South America; Cabot Sails to Newfoundland; Jacques Cartier Explores Canada; Search For a North-West Passage; Frobisher Searches for a North-West Passage; Drake’s Famous Voyage Round the World; Davis Straight; Barents Sails to Spitzbergen; Hudson Finds His Bay. Baffin Finds His Bay; Sir Walter Raleigh Searches for El Dorado; Champlain Discovers Lake Ontario; Early Discoverers of Australia; Tasman Finds Tasmania; Dampier Discovers His Straight; are some of the chapters found in A Book of Discovery.

Edmund John Millington Synge was an Irish scenarist, poet, novelist, wrote about his travels abroad and collected mythological books. He was a leading personality in the Irish Literary Revival and co-founded the Abbey Theatre. He is most famous for his stage play The Playboy of the Western World, which instigated a mad dash in Dublin in its inauguration at the Abbey Theatre.

He was from a wealthy Anglo-Irish descent, his opuses primarily relate to the Roman Catholic poverty-stricken people of Ireland and with what he understood as the indispensable atheism of their standpoint. He suffered from Hodgkin’s disease, a metastatic cancer that was at that time terminal.
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