Periplus

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Notion

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Arts and letters

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What Wikipedia says

A periplus (), or periplous, is a manuscript document that lists the ports and coastal landmarks, in order and with approximate intervening distances, that the captain of a vessel could expect to find along a shore.

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