Travel and discovery in the Renaissance, 1420-1620
1955, First Edition, Second Printing. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Faint foxing to edges and prelims. Remains well-preserved overall; internally strong and clean. Item #476718
Physical description; xvi, 369 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-348). Contents; The background – Classical and Medieval – Some free-land travelers of the early Renaissance – Henry the navigator and the African voyage – The Portuguese in the Orient – The Columbian voyages – The conquistadores – Eastern South America – Africa in the sixteenth century – The early exploration of North America – Magellan and his successors – The search for the Northern passages – The age of Drake – The English and Dutch reach the Orient – Tourists in the East – The early colonization of North America – The cartography and navigation of the Renaissance – The geographical literature of the Renaissance. Subjects; Discoveries in geography – History – 15th-17th centuries. Geography – 15th-17th centuries. Voyages and travels – History – 15th-17th centuries. Explorers – History – 15th-17th centuries.
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