Kingdoms of the East [antikvár]

Introduction'Kingdoms of the East'. The term is, of course, a relative one. It depends where on earth you are standing. It so happened that the early explorers and navigators set out from Europe. East and West in a geographical sense were for ever after viewed from this starting point. Had Australia been the point of departure for Vasco da Gama and Columbus, India and Europe might have been called 'the West' and America 'the East'.When it comes to the movement and distribution of species, the animal kingdom is not concerned with such niceties. East or West, North or South, it is all the same to the elephant, the orang-