Sentence examples similar to limited geographical knowledge from inspiring English sources

Yet frustrations are not limited to a lack of historical or geographical knowledge.

Greek geographical knowledge contemporaneous with the composition of the Odyssey being presumably confined within very narrow limits, the frontiers of the known are soon passed, and the poet launches out into a realm not of invention, but of reality dimly and imperfectly apprehended — a world of hearsay and travellers' tales, no doubt adorned in the Homeric poem with the colours of poetry.

His study of the delightfully named Book of Roger – a compilation of Greek, Latin and Arabic geographical knowledge assembled by a Muslim scholar under the aegis of a Christian king – provides a perspective on the limits of medieval multi-culturalism that is no less hard-headed for Brotton's sense of wonder that it should have existed at all.

The vision of the Society's founders to "further geographical work, to spread geographical knowledge, and to encourage geographical research" has materialized beyond their greatest expectations.

Are deaths like Gordon's frivolous, or are they an inevitable cost of expanding our geographical knowledge?

The French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars placed a premium on up-to-date, detailed geographical knowledge of Britain's borders.

Any gaps in our geographical knowledge have been painstakingly filled in thanks to advanced technologies and satellite imagery.

Mr. Colquhoun's volumes would be a welcome addition to our- geographical knowledge at any time.

She, of course, rolled her eyes at my lack of geographical knowledge.

Fu Ying: China regarded itself as at "the center under heaven" only before geographical knowledge grew and proved otherwise.

BM edited the subsequent draft and contributed human geographical knowledge.