TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boyle,David
TI  - Voyages of discovery
T2  - History files
SN  - 9780500289594 (pbk)
AV  - G460 .B79 2011
U1  - 910.941 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York, N.Y.
PB  - Thames & Hudson
KW  - Voyages and travels
KW  - History
KW  - Early works to 1800
KW  - Explorers
KW  - Europe
KW  - Discoveries in geography
KW  - European
KW  - Commerce
N1  - Includes nine facsimile documents in pocket attached to inside back cover of book; Includes bibliographical references (131-132) and index; Maps, motivation and meetings -- The sea route to India: Dias and da Gama -- Discovering America: Christopher Columbus -- The Northwest Passage: John Cabot -- Circumnavigation: Ferdinand Magellan -- Exploiting the New World: the Conquistadors -- The South Seas: James Cook -- The impact of the encounters
N2  - In the three decades between 1492 and 1522, European merchants and explorers progressed from relative ignorance about the shape of the globe to knowledge of an atlas that was almost complete. They did so in search of spices, gold, silver and slaves, but with rudimentary technology, huge courage and boundless confidence in themselves and their calculations. The exchange of flora, fauna, diet, disease and culture changed the world within a few generations. The final touches to the pattern of oceans and continents came 2.5 centuries later with the voyages of James Cook. Voyages to Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Pacific and the legacies of those journeys and encounters are here dramatically described
ER  -