Combining a first-hand knowledge of the sea and transatlantic travel with a brilliantly readable narrative style. The European Discovery of America has become nothing less than the definitive account of the great age of European exploration. In the first volume of this riveting and richly illustrated saga Morison re-creates the lives and perilous times of those intrepid mariners who sailed across the North Atlantic to the New World from A.D. 500 to the 16th century.
Language
English
Pages
776
Format
paper
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Release
August 19, 1993
ISBN
0195082729
ISBN 13
9780195082722
The European Discovery of America, Vol 2: The Southern Voyages 1492-1616
Combining a first-hand knowledge of the sea and transatlantic travel with a brilliantly readable narrative style. The European Discovery of America has become nothing less than the definitive account of the great age of European exploration. In the first volume of this riveting and richly illustrated saga Morison re-creates the lives and perilous times of those intrepid mariners who sailed across the North Atlantic to the New World from A.D. 500 to the 16th century.