Science

A Briefe Introduction to Geography

by William Pemble

William Pemble, a young Puritan lecturer at Oxford, died in 1623, and this little book of his was published some years later. It is a short course in the geography of his day, the kind a student would have learned beside a globe in the age of Mercator. The spelling is old, and so is the confidence.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 50 minutes

Where to find it

The Map Room

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #14999. In the public domain in the United States.