The great age of discovery
By: edited by Arthur Percival Newton; with eight collotype and twenty-three other plates.
Publisher: University of London Press, ltd.
Published: 1932
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Discoveries in geography.; America -- Discovery and exploration.; Spain -- History -- Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516.
Notes: Bibliographical references in "Notes" at end of each chapter except the first.
Plates, etc., accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letterpress.
"The substance of the contributions that are here published was included in a course of public lectures delivered in the Departments of history and geography in King's college, London, in the Lent term of 1931."--Pref.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: 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.