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The great age of discovery
Title
The great age of discovery / edited by Percival Newton; with eight collotype and twenty-three other plates.
Published
London : University of London Press, Ltd., 1932.
Physical Description
xi, 230 p. : front., plates, ports., maps, facsims. ; 23 cm.
Local Notes
MED: A.C. Klebs copy.
Notes
Includes index.
Plates, etc., accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letterpress.
"The substance of the contributions that are here published was included in a course of public lectures delivered in the Departments of history and geography in King's college, London, in the Lent term of 1931."--Pref.
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Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Bibliographical references in "Notes" at end of each chapter except the first.
Contents
Introduction.
the transition from the medieval to the modern age, by A.P. Newton.
Spanish civilisation in the great age of discovery, by A. Pastor.
Vasco da Gama and the way to the Indies, by E. Prestage.
Christopher Columbus and his first voyage, by A.P. Newton.
Asia or mundus novus? By A.P. Newton.
The first explorers of the North American coast, by H.P. Biggar.
The search for a western passage, by H.J. Wood.
The first circumnavigation, by J. A. Williamson.
The northern passages, by E.G.R. Taylor.
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