Show world made for fishes joseph conrad writing in the national geographic magazine about geography and some of the explorers who made it recalls the most fanciful variants of the mediaeval media eval navigators pet theory of a great southern continent geography militant which had succeeded the geography fabulous did not seem able to accept the idea that there was much more water than land on this globe nothing could satisfy their sense of tho the fitness of things but am aar enormous extent of solid earth which they placed in that region of the south where as a matter of fact the he great crested seas of stormy latitudes will be free fi ee to chase ench other nil all around the globe to tile the end of time 1 I suppose their lands mens temperament stood in the way of their recognition tion anat the world of ot geography as far as n the apportioning of space goes ems to have been planned mostly for the convenience of fishes |