The complete online text of The Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography by Samuel Butler (novelist).

The English novelist and essayist Samuel Butler (1835-1902) was a critic of established religious, social, and scientific ideas. Samuel Butler was born on Dec. 4, 1835, in Langar, near Bingham, Nottinghamshire, the son of the local vicar. In a time of co...

The English poet Samuel Butler (ca. 1613-1680) is best known as the author of "Hudibras," a long comic poem that satirizes the Puritans. The exact date of Samuel Butler's birth is unknown. He was baptized Feb. 14, 1613, in Strensham, Worcestershire. The...

Although Samuel Butler was largely overlooked by the general public in his own time— only one of his books, Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later (1901), was published without financial support from its author—Samuel Butler achieved fame soon...

DIVIDE AND CONQUER FOR A MILLENNIUM AND A HALF THE ANCIENT GREEKS AND ROMANS SETTLED, ruled, and traded across Europe, North Africa, and western Asia. Sometimes as partners, often as enemies, they interacted with many other peoples and cultures in this broad segment...

Derek Hayes, Historical Atlas of the Arctic. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2003. 208 pp. $75.00. Geographer Derek Hayes, author of the highly regarded Historical Atlas of Canada (2002) has returned with another outstanding publication. This compilation of over three hundred Arctic-oriented maps and...