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Circles of Certainty, and Where They Stop
Everything in a British account of the world is drawn from a single position, and the position is a harbour on an island. That is the honest starting point and it explains more than any other single fact about British geography. The world is known outward from the water, in the order the water reaches it, at the pace the trade has found worth paying for.
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