The Age Of Reconnaissance
Series: History of Civilisation
Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicholson
Published: 1963
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
Subjects: Discoveries in geography; Colonization -- History
Description: "The purpose of this book is to tell in outline the story of European geographical exploration, trade and settlement outside the bounds of Europe in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; to define the factors which stimulated expansion and made it possible; and to describe briefly the consequences which followed it."--Preface.
Notes: Includes Bibliography