European Discovery of America: Southern Voyagesby Samuel Eliot Morison | |
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"U.S. History - Cultural" |
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| Pages: | 737 |
| Year of Publication: | 1974 |
| Date Read: | 08/18/1988 |
| Notes: | The navigators who negotiated the waters of the Caribbean and the treacherous coasts of South America. The Southern Voyages begins with the events leading up to Columbus's arrival in San Salvador in 1492 and concludes with the discovery of the southernmost bit of land, Cape Horn, by Dutch explorers in 1616. In between, Morison retraces the routes of all the great mariners, including a step-by-step account of Magellan's voyage that would take him around the world. Morison has enlivened his narrative with a wide range of source material from Italy, Spain, Portugal, and South America, in the process shedding new light on questions that have divided scholars througout history: Did Sir Francis Drake discover San Francisco Bay? Was Amerigo Vespucci a great explorer or a fraud — or a little of both? What role did the French have in the European discovery of Brazil? |
| My Rating: | 8 |