The  quest for India
Subtitle: a history of discovery and exploration from the expedition to the land of Punt in 1493 B.C. to the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope in 1488 A.D., in words and pictures.
By: [Translated by Michael Phillips and Hugh W. Stubbs.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1964
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y.]
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 223
Copyright date: 1964
Subjects: Discoveries in geography.
Notes: Translation of Vägen till Indien.

Translation information from last page.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Egypt and the land of Punt; title: Crete and Mycenae; title: Through the pillars of Melcarth; title: Ophir, the land of gold; title: The Phoenicians circumnavigate Africa; title: Phocaea, Miletus and Carthage; title: The Tin Islands; title: Hanno's voyage to the chariot of the gods; title: The Persian Empire; title: Scylax in the Indian Ocean; title: Herodotus' geography; title: Pytheas' voyage to Thule; title: Alexander the Great; title: The Ganges and Taprobane; title: Eudoxus and the Hippalus winds; title: The Roman Empire; title: Periplus Maris Erythraei; title: The routes to China; title: Ptolemy's map; title: The fall of the Roman Empire; title: Frumentius converts the Axumites; title: The tabernacle world of Cosmas Indicopleustes; title: The silk worm comes to Europe; title: Nestorians in China; title: St. Brendan; title: Iceland, Greenland and Vinland; title: The world empire of the Arabs; title: Ibn Wahab and the emperor of China; title: Adventurers in the Atlantic; title: Al-Idrisi's map of the world; title: Medieval European maps; title: Prester John and the Crusades; title: The world empire of the Mongols; title: Carpini's journey to Mongolia; title: William of Rubruck among the Mongols; title: Marco Polo; title: Missionaries and merchants in China; title: The Vivaldo Brothers; title: Prester John in Abyssinia; title: The Antipodes and the Southern Cross; title: Ibn Batuta, world traveller; title: The plumb, the compass, the chart and the astrolabe; title: The kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula; title: The Canary Islands and Madeira; title: Portugal goes to sea; title: Henry the Navigator; title: The discovery of the Azores; title: From Cape Bojador to Cape Verde; title: Juan Fernandez enters Africa; title: A Dane in Africa; title: Usodimare and Cadamosto; title: Gomes in the City of Gold; title: Fra Mauro's map; title: The death of Henry the Navigator; title: Private adventurers in the fifteenth century; title: From Sierra Leone to the equator; title: Westward to the East; title: Diego Cão's voyages to South-West Africa; title: The route to India