... the largest desert in the world. On the other side of the Sahara were many great cultures that were isolated from the rest of the world. Henry wanted to find a water route to India. The passage to India over land was long, slow, and dangerous. A ship could carry more goods ... most sophisticated maps of their time. The maps made it possible for sailors to learn from previous expeditions. Henry was a visionary. A visionary is someone who can imagine something that hasn't yet happened. Henry owned a globe when many people believed the world was flat. He knew that Africa was more than end...

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... College in London. . Fellow students USE TO snuB ME because I was an Indian. In MY lonely hours I studied philosophy. In MY reading I discovered the principle of nonviolence as enunciated in Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," and I was persuaded by John Ruskin's plea to give up industrialism for farm life and traditional handicrafts--ideals similar to many Hindu religious ideas. In 1891 ... to boycott British goods, courts, and government. This led to MY imprisonment from 1922 to 1924. In 1930, in protest of a salt tax, I led thousands of Indians on a 200-mile (320-kilometer) m...

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