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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976. European discovery of America. New York, Oxford University Press, 1971-74 (OCoLC)570150868 Online version: Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976. European discovery of America. New York, Oxford University Press, 1971-74 (OCoLC)631177895 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Samuel Eliot Morison |
| ISBN: | 0195013778 9780195013771 0192159410 9780192159410 0192159453 9780192159458 0195018230 9780195018233 |
| OCLC Number: | 132847 |
| Awards: | Bancroft Prize (volume 1), 1972. |
| Description: | 2 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | [Volume 1]. The northern voyages, A.D. 500-1600. -- The mysterious ocean -- St. Brendan and the Irish A.D. 400-600 -- The Norsemen and Vinland c. A.D. 800-1400 -- Flyaway islands and false voyages 1100-1492 -- English ships and seamen 1490-1600 -- John Cabot's voyages 1497-1498 -- Voyages to Labrador and Newfoundland 1500-1536 -- The French maritime background 1453-1590 -- The voyages of Verrazzano 1524-1528 -- Gomez and Ayllon 1524-1530 -- Cartier's first voyage 1534 -- Cartier's second voyage 1535-1536 -- The search for Saguenay 1538-1543 -- England, France, and the northwest 1553-1600 -- Queen Elizabeth and her master mariners -- Frobisher's second and third voyages 1577-1578 -- Hakluyt and Gilbert 1578-1585 -- The northern voyages of John Davis 1585-1587 -- The first Virginia colony 1585-1586 -- The second Virginia colony 1587-? -- [volume 2]. The southern voyages, A.D. 1492-1616. -- Christopher Columbus -- His "enterprise of the Indies" -- Columbus's first voyage of discovery, August-October 1492 -- The greater Antilles, 12 October 1492-15 March 1493 -- Triumph and tragedy, March 1493-April 1494 -- Jamaica, Cuba, and rebellion, 1494-1496 -- Third voyage, mainland discovery, 1498-1500 -- The mariner's day -- "Minor voyages": the Spanish Main, 1499-1526 -- The discovery of Brazil, 1500-1508 -- Columbus's fourth voyage, 1502-1504 -- Vespucci and Solis, 1499-1516 -- Ferdinand Magellan -- Armada de Molucca, 1517-1519 -- Magellan's voyage to the strait, 1519-1520 -- "The strait that shall forever bear his name," October-November 1520 -- Across the Pacific -- Philippines and Spice Islands -- Homeward bound, 1522 -- Spain's follow-up to Magellan, 1525-1565 -- Bermuda, Florida, and the Gulf, 1505-1543 -- Sebastian Cabot goes to sea, 162-1530 -- The conquest of the River Plate, 1543-1580 -- France and Portugal in Brazil, 1504-1568 -- Back to the strait, 1535-1558 -- California before Drake -- Drake's voyage of circumnavigation, 1577-1579 -- Drake in California, 1579 -- The voyages of Sarmiento de Gamboa, 1571-1589 -- The voyages of Thomas Cavendish, 1586-1593 -- The discovery of Cape Horn, 1598-1616. |
| Other Titles: | Northern voyages, A.D. 500-1600. Southern voyages, A.D. 1492-1616. |
| Responsibility: | Samuel Eliot Morison. |
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"Now [Morison] has united the latest findings of modern scholarship, American and European, to his own zestful explorations by land, sea and air, to produce a comprehensive and, for our day and age, definitive account of the process by which Europe substituted fact for fable and knowledge for ignorance about the New World across the Western Ocean....[A] unique combination of scholarship and fieldwork....Into these volumes is distilled a lifetime ofexperience--of sailing, of learning and of the sadly neglected art of historical narration. They are a joy and a treasure house."--Economist"The first comprehensive effort, in nearly a century, to bring the whole subject under a 20th-centry camera....Morison has been able to bring his reader something none of his predecessors has....This reviewer recalls no other recent historical narrative where there is a more helpful blending of illustration and text."--Christian Science Monitor"Irresistibly entertaining."--Newsweek"In this mellow book Morison blends pungent insight as a historian and extraordinary knowledge as a navigator, familiarity with the ancient sagas and graphic understanding of the dangers which the mariners encountered. He threads his way through the myths and national rivalries with a strong hand and salty wit....His scholarship is never forbidding, for throughout the narrative he is speaking as a twentieth-century admiral of the ocean sea, urbane, goodhumored, experienced, and acute in his reading of human nature. The notes are spicy and persuasive, the maps and illustrations profuse."--The Atlantic Read more...
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