The great age of discovery.
Series: Essay index reprint series
Publisher: Books for Libraries Press
Published: 1969
Place of publication: Freeport, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Discoveries in geography; America -- Discovery and exploration; Spain -- History -- Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Reprint of the 1932 ed.
Table of contents: title: Introduction-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.