The European discovery of America
Subtitle: the southern voyages, A.D. 1492-1616
By: Samuel Eliot Morison
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1974
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 758
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Christopher Columbus; title: His "Enterprise of the Indies"; title: Columbus's first voyage of discovery, August-October 1492; title: The Greater Antilles, 12 October 1492-15 March 1493; title: Triumph and tragedy, March 1493-April 1494; title: Jamaica, Cuba, and rebellion, 1494-1496; title: Third voyage, mainland discovered, 1498-1500; title: The mariner's day; title: "Minor voyages" : the Spanish Main, 1499-1526; title: The discovery of Brazil, 1500-1508; title: Columbus's fourth voyage, 1502-1504; title: Vespucci and Solis, 1499-1516; title: Ferdinand Magellan; title: Armada de Molucca, 1517-1519; title: Magellan's voyage to the Strait, 1519-1520; title: "The Strait that shall forever bear his name," October-November 1520; title: Across the Pacific; title: Philippines and Spice Islands; title: Homeward bound, 1522; title: Spain's follow-up to Magellan, 1525-1565; title: Bermuda, Florida, and the Gulf, 1505-1543; title: Sebastian Cabot goes to sea, 1526-1530; title: The conquest of the river Plate, 1534-1580; title: France and Portugal in Brazil, 1504-1568; title: Back to the Strait, 1534-1558; title: California before Drake; title: Drake's voyage of circumnavigation, 1577-1579; title: Drake in California, 1579; title: The voyages of Sarmiento de Gamboa, 1571-1589; title: The voyages of Thomas Cavendish, 1586-1593; title: The discovery of Cape Horn, 1598-1616.