The European discovery of America
Subtitle: the northern voyages, A.D. 500-1600
By: Samuel Eliot Morison
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 712
Subjects: America -- Discovery and exploration.; Amérique.; Amérique -- Découverte et exploration.
Other titles: Northern voyages, A.D. 500-1600.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The mysterious ocean; title: St. Brendan and the Irish A.D. 400-600; title: The Norsemen and Vinland c. 800-1400; title: Flyaway islands and the false voyages 1100-1492; title: English ships and seamen 1490-1600; title: John Cabot's voyages 1497-1498; title: Voyages to the Labrador and Newfoundland 1500-1536; title: The French maritime background 1453-1590; title: The voyages of Verrazzano 1524-1528; title: Gomez and Ayllón 1524-1530; title: Cartier's first voyage 1534; title: Cartier's second voyage 1535-1536; title: The search for Saguenay 1538-1536; title: England, France, and the northwest 1553-1600; title: Queen Elizabeth and her master mariners; title: Frobisher's second and third voyages 1577-1578; title: Hakluyt and Gilbert 1578-1585; title: The northern voyages of John Davis 1585-1587; title: The first Virginia colony 1585-1586; title: The second Virginia colony 1587-?