A Compendium of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages: Digested in a Chronological Series

From the time of Richard Hakluyt and the Elizabethan "flowering" of empire and geography, British geographical knowledge was crucially conveyed by and received in the form of travel narratives. Smollett's *Compendium* is a fascinating historical record, fully illustrated with maps and charts, and relevant not just to geographers but also to historians of many subjects.