The discovery of North America
Subtitle: a critical, documentary, and historic investigation. With an essay on the early cartography of the New World, including descriptions of two hundred and fifty maps or globes existing or lost, constructed before the year 1536; to which are added a chronology of one hundred voyages westward, projected, attempted, or accomplished between 1431 and 1504; biographical accounts of the three hundred pilots who first crossed the Atlantic; and a copious list of the original names of American regions, caciqueships, mountains, islands, capes, gulfs, rivers, towns, and harbours.
Publisher: N. Israel
Published: 1961
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 802
Subjects: Cartography.; Explorers -- North America.; America -- Discovery and exploration.; North America -- Discovery and exploration.
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
Imprint on mounted label: New York, W. S. Heinman.