The great age of discovery.
Series: Literature of discovery, exploration & geography series, 6; Burt Franklin research & source works series, 563.
Publisher: B. Franklin
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Discoveries in geography.; America -- Discovery and exploration.; Spain -- History -- Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: the transition from the medieval to the modern age, by A. P. Newton.; title: Spanish civilisation in the great age of discovery, by A. Pastor.; title: Vasco da Gama and the way to the Indies, by E. Prestage.; title: Christopher Columbus and his first voyage, by A. P. Newton.; title: Asia or mundus novus? By A. P. Newton.; title: The first explorers of the North American coast, by H. P. Biggar.; title: The search for a western passage, by H. J. Wood.; title: The first circumnavigation, by J. A. Williamson.; title: The northern passages, by E. G. R. Taylor.