Herrmann, Paul

Conquest by Man / by Paul Herrmann. - First ed - New York : Harper & Brothers, 1954. - xxiii, 445 p. : ill., portraits, maps ; 25 cm.

With hardcover lncludes bibliogr. and index

Cont.: Early travel -- The royal metal -- Punt, Land of God, and the "Isle of the Blessed" -- Greek legends and what lies behind them -- From Rome to the Far East and America -- America--Hvitramanna Land, the land of the palefaces -- The rune stone of Kensington and the mystery of the Greenland Vikings -- Wineland -- From Jotunheimar and Svalbard to Bagdad and Canton -- The Crusades, Prester John and the Great Khan -- The Portuguese and Africa.


Discoveries in geography