Excerpt from The Northward Course of Empire
The idea of this book is doubtless old, though it came to me only about 1912. Perhaps it was old to the Medes and Persians. It may even have been an ancient revamping of it that led Solomon to remark Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Northward Course of Empire (Classic Reprint) (Vilhjalmur Stefansson)