Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics Vol. XXXIII (in 51 Volumes)

Author names not noted above: Sir Francis Drake Francis Petty Walter Biggs Edward Hayes Sir Walter Raleigh Editor name not noted above: Philip Nichols Translator names not noted above: G.C. Macaulay Thomas Gordon Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name Harvard Classics this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature philosophy history and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926) Harvard Universitys longest-serving president. Also known as Dr. Eliots Five Foot Shelf it represented Eliots belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by reading from an anthology of works that could fit on five feet of bookshelf. Volume XXXIII features essential writings of ethnography and exploration. In their own voices hear: - Herodotus the father of story-tellers on the gods of ancient Egypt - Tacitus in the front rank of ancient historians on the Teutonic tribes of the Roman era - Sir Francis Drake the greatest of the naval adventurers of England of the time of Elizabeth relates his historic 16th-century journey around the Straits of Magellan - Sir Walter Raleigh courtier and statesman soldier and sailor scientist and man of letters tells of his 1594 discovery of Guiana - and others.