The European Discovery of America the Southern Voyages 1492-1616 - Hardcover

Morison, Samuel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0192159453 ISBN 13: 9780192159458

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1974

Synopsis

Concluding volume of of the author's minumental study of the discovery of America. - the southern voyages.

About this title

About the Author

The late Samuel Eliot Morison, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was the author of numerous books including The Oxford History of the American People, The Growth of the American Republic, and Admiral of the Ocean, a biography of Columbus.

Review

"Exuberant....Plenty of meticulous research and inspired labor went into this true and exciting yarn of the early European voyages to America. But there's more than that. He has added to his research by physically retacing many of the explorers' routes, gaining his descriptive color
firsthand. He offers a hearty fare mixed with oakum, salt spray and sea biscuit."--The Christian Science Monitor

"Now [Morison] has united the latest findings of modern scholarship, American and European, to his own zestful explorations by land, sea and air, to produce a comprehensive and, for our day and age, definitive account of the process by which Europe substituted fact for fable and knowledge for
ignorance about the New World across the Western Ocean....[A] unique combination of scholarship and fieldwork....Into these volumes is distilled a lifetime of experience--of sailing, of learning and of the sadly neglected art of historical narration. They are a joy and a treasure
house."--Economist

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192159453
• ISBN 13: 9780192159458
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 776