The Story of the World, Volume 1: Ancient Times
The Story of the World, Volume 1: Ancient Times
(the following changes have been made in reprints of this book during the past two years).
Pages ix, 235, 333, 334: change “Jakata” to “Jataka”
Page 111, map for chapter 15, three misspellings: on the map legend, change Phonecia and Phonecian to Phoenicia and Phoenician…and the title of the map should be “Phoenicia and Its Settlements”
Page 116, map for chapter 16, the body of water in the upper-right-hand corner of the map should say “Caspian Sea” instead of “Black Sea”
Page 153, last sentence in first paragraph: change “the Greeks though that…” to “the Greeks thought that…”
Page 189, middle: in discussing the drawing of the monkey, “covered hundreds of miles of ground” should say “covered hundreds of feet of ground.” (The area covered by all the drawings together is 190 square miles, but no single drawing is more than 900 feet.)
Page 296, in the “parent note,” Nero’s reign should be listed as lasting from 54-68. Also should be corrected in Appendix One, page 320.
Page 313, change “eight other planets in our solar system” to “seven other planets in our solar system”
Page 313, same sentence: take “Pluto” out of the list of planets. The list should end with Neptune.
Page 320, Timeline, change “Attila the Hun dies” from 52 to 453.
Illustrations:
Page 116, map, the sea labeled as “Black Sea” should say “Caspian Sea.”
Picture Caption on page 207, change “Pluto stole Ceres” to “Pluto stole Proserpine” as described in the story.
