Voyages of discovery
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Author
Publication
2011 - Thames & Hudson, New York, N.Y, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
36,000 words, Guess
Page Count
144 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL25346037M
- ISBN-139780500289594
- OCLC Control Number752333442
- OCLC Control Numbervoyagesofdiscove0000boyl
- Library of Congress Control Number2011922605
Classifications
- DDC910.941
- LCCG460 .B79 2011
Description
In the three decades between 1492 and 1522, European merchants and explorers progressed from relative ignorance about the shape of the globe to knowledge of an atlas that was almost complete. They did so in search of spices, gold, silver and slaves, but with rudimentary technology, huge courage and boundless confidence in themselves and their calculations. The exchange of flora, fauna, diet, disease and culture changed the world within a few generations. The final touches to the pattern of oceans and continents came 2.5 centuries later with the voyages of James Cook. Voyages to Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Pacific and the legacies of those journeys and encounters are here dramatically described.
Subjects
Series Statement
- History files
Other Editions
- Voyages of discovery
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