The European Discovery of America: Vol 2, The Southern Voyages A.D. 1492-1616
"Exuberant....Plenty of meticulous research and inspired labor went into this true and exciting yarn of the early European voyages to America.  But there's more than that. He has added to his research by physically retacing many of the explorers' routes, gaining his descriptive color firsthand.  He offers a hearty fare mixed with oakum, salt spray and sea biscuit."--The Christian Science Monitor"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 of experience--of sailing, of learning and of the sadly neglected art of historical narration.  They are a joy and a treasure house."--Economist