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Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance, 1420-1620 / Boies Penrose.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Penrose, Boies, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discoveries in geography.
- Geography--Early works to 1800.
- Local Subjects:
- Discoveries in geography.
- Geography--Early works to 1800.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (393 p.): 8 Ktn.
- Edition:
- 4th printing 1963. Reprint 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER 1. THE BACKGROUND CLASSICAL AND MEDIEVAL
- CHAPTER 2. SOME FREE-LANCE TRAVELERS OF THE EARLY RENAISSANCE
- CHAPTER 3. HENRY THE NAVIGATOR AND THE AFRICAN VOYAGES
- CHAPTER 4. THE PORTUGUESE IK THE ORIENT
- CHAPTER 5. THE COLUMBIAN VOYAGES
- CHAPTER 6. THE COXQUISTADORES
- CHAPTER 7. EASTERN SOUTH AMERICA, 1500-1600
- CHAPTER 8. AFRICA IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
- CHAPTER 9. THE EARLY EXPLORATION OF NORTH AMERICA
- CHAPTER 10. MAGELLAN AMD HIS SUCCESSORS
- CHAPTER 11. THE SEARCH FOR THE NORTHERN PASSAGES
- CHAPTER 12. THE AGE OF DRAKE
- CHAPTER 13. THE ENGLISH AND DUTCH REACH THE ORIENT
- CHAPTER 14. TOURISTS IN THE EAST
- CHAPTER 15. THE EARLY COLONIZATION OF NORTH AMERICA
- CHAPTER 16. THE CARTOGRAPHY AND NAVIGATION OF THE RENAISSANCE
- CHAPTER 17. THE GEOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE OF THE RENAISSANCE
- CHAPTER 18. CONCLUSION
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-674-86354-2
- OCLC:
- 1013963427
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