The great age of discovery

Author(s)

• Newton, A. P.
• Pastor, Antonio
• Prestage, Edgar
• Biggar, H. P.
• Wood, H. J.
• Williamson, James Alexander
• Taylor, E. G. R. (Eva Germaine Rimington)

Bibliographic Information

The great age of discovery

edited by Arthur Percival Newton

University of London press, 1932

Note

Includes index

Contents of Works

• Introduction-the transition from the medieval to the modern age / by Arthur Percival Newton
• Spanish civilisation in the great age of discovery / by Antonio Pastor
• Vasco da Gama and the way to the Indies / by Edgar Prestage
• Christopher Columbus and his first voyage / by Arthur Percival Newton
• Asia or mundus novus? / by Arthur Percival Newton
• The first explorers of the North American coast / by H.P. Biggar
• The search for a western passage / by H.J. Wood
• The first circumnavigation / by James A. Williamson
• The northern passages / by E.G.R. Taylor

Details

• NCID: BA49085169
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 230 p., [30] leaves of plates.
• Size: 23 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Discoveries in geography
  • LCSH : America -- Discovery and exploration
  • LCSH : Spain -- History -- Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516