This is asking too much of the reader and it's not giving enough in return. I began reading with an open mind, even verbalizing some of the names, but soon started skimming. If my eye had happened on anything worth stopping at, I would have paused to read more closely, but I regret to say it did not. By the end, I was no longer reading at all. Before commenting, I went back through and forced myself to read every detail, simply for credibility's sake, but my initial response still stands.

The problem here is simply too much information, and exacerbating that, most of it is without context. It's the kind of writing that people in the real world skim over and stop reading all the time, even when they stand to benefit if they paid attention. Have you ever read a travel guide? Not exactly thrilling reading. Even modern travel guides don't read like this. Those that are any good read much more like a story.

Here's my suggestion, it's been done but you could make it work. Have a character be either reading this or writing it for some reason. He or she could be a scribe making a copy, a student studying for an exam, or even a writer getting ready to publish. Upon reflection, more though would need to go into this, because you don't want it to sound contrived, either. Anyway.

Go through what you've written and choose a few (2 or 3) or several (7 plus or minus 2 as an upper limit) of the best-written lines from the text above. Ideally, these should all also be details that you want your reader to remember about the world because they are important for some reason. You might need to stitch some together and you will certainly need to make some hard choices, because the sentences you keep will need to be brief.

Then, write a new-from-scratch chapter from that character's pov as he or she is reading or writing this travel guide. Interspersed in that chapter, you can include the passages you chose. They will break things up, so keep them brief. The main thrust of the chapter, however, should be to advance the character's story arc, and the information in the travel guide needs to be doing that as well probably in at least a few ways.

Certainly this would not be the most exciting way to begin a book, as it's light on action and heavy on introspection and, as I've said, it's a bit done, but you could make it work. The travel guide thing, though, I'm sorry to say would never work as a first chapter. People simply wouldn't read it. Not because it's bad or anything, it's just that people simply won't undertake such cognitive load. It is known.