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Voyages That Changed the World

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Peter Aughton did a great job in picking out voyages that had both an impact to world history and that make interesting and exciting stories to read. I found each one to be enlightening and had me wanting to find individual books that would go into greater detail. He was able to come up with interesting yet important facts that I was unaware of. I would recommend this to anyone.

I picked this up on remainder and finally stopped reading it when the errors became absurd. This seems to have been assembled from children's essays of several decades ago. The text is disjointed and contains many blatant errors. To list a couple: Page 74 refers to "the isle of Guam in the Philippines..." misplacing it by over 1200 miles; Page 105 has the subtitle "The Pilgrim Fathers establish North America's first successful colony", omitting Jamestown, the Spanish colonies in Florida and Mexico, and the French outposts in Canada. Please keep this away from your children.

I am amazed at how quickly this book arrived. It came way before they said it would be here. And it was in excellent condition.