id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 14291 Jacobs, Joseph The Story of Geographical Discovery: How the World Became Known .txt text/plain 48659 2842 73 western coast of Africa and the south-east part of Spain, while Rome the world east and west the new knowledge acquired by Marco Polo, Now the north-west coast of Africa was known in Prince Henry's as pilot of a fleet which should explore the new land discovered New World discovered by him, and a Portuguese noble, named Fernao and, in a subsequent voyage next year, discovered the strait named the North-East Passage, if not for reaching the Spice Islands, by sea along the north-west coast of Mexico, and reached what he new lands; by that time almost the whole coast-line of the world and the north-east coast of Asia to be explored, while the great sent two years later to attempt the north-west passage, one by land reached the east coast of Victoria Land, and arrived within fifty Cook's first voyage; discovers New Zealand and east coast ./cache/14291.txt ./txt/14291.txt