Download or read book The European Discovery of America The northern voyages A D 500 1600 written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Samuel Eliot Morison, a former U.S. Navy admiral, was also one of America's premier historians. Combining a first-hand knowledge of the sea and transatlantic travel with a brilliantly readable narrative style, he produced what has become nothing less than the definitive account of the great age of European exploration. In his riveting and richly illustrated saga, Morison offers a comprehensive account of all the known voyages by Europeans to the New World from 500 A.D. to the seventeenth century. Together, the two volumes of The European Discovery of America tell the compelling stories of the many intrepid explorers who made what was then a journey frought with danger--figures as diverse as Leif Ericsson, Columbus, John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, Martin Frobisher, Magellan, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Sir Francis Drake to name but a few. They also follow the adventures of lesser-known but no less interesting mariners and offer a detailed look at those who set them forth on their travels. In the first volume, The Nrthern Voyages--winner of the prestigious Bancroft Prize for History--Morison re-creates the lives and perilous times of those who claimed to have seen the shores of North America in the 600 years after the Norsemen first landed. He brings to his account a rare immediacy, making the drama and unpredictability of their voyages as significant in relation to the people of their era as the astronauts' journeys have been for our own times. Morison also offers a fascinating look at the imaginary lands reported by early travelers (such mythical places as Antilia and the Seven Cities, the glorious Kingdoms of Norumbega and Saguenay, and Hy-Brasil the Isle of the Blest) and examines as well the alleged discoverers of these lands. With warmth and wit he distinguishes fact from fiction, and imaginary explorers and their exploits from actual men and events. In the second volume, Morison turns his attention to the navigators who negotiated the waters of the Caribbean and the treacherous coasts of South America, even following them as they ventured ashore to the dark inland of the southern continent. 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? Each volume brims with contemporary illustrations, maps (many of them specially drawn for this history) and photographs (often taken by Morison himself as he flew at low altitude along the coastal routes of explorers), which together identify virtually every allusion to land and sea made by the great European navigators in their ship logs and their later accounts. With the 500th anniversary of the European arrival in America came much controversy over Columbus's true legacy. With its lively and engaging style, and with its unsurpassed understanding of the age, The European Discovery of America helps put the era of exploration in much-needed perspective. Anyone interested in the history of America, indeed, in the history of Western Civilization, will find these volumes absolutely essential.
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Download or read book The Northern Voyages written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The European Discovery of America written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emphasizes the discoveries and explorations of Columbus, Magellan and Drake during the period.
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Download or read book European Discovery America North and South written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by . This book was released on 1974-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Columbus, Magellan, and Drake are focused upon in this account of the early discovery voyages south of the Caribbean. Bibliogs
Download or read book The European Discovery of America The southern voyages 1492 1616 written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes discussions of fictional pre-Columbian voyages, Vinland voyages, voyages of Cabot, Cartier, Frobisher, and others. Good bibliographies.
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Download or read book The European Discovery of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes discussions of fictional pre-Columbian voyages, Vinland voyages, voyages of Cabot, Cartier, Frobisher, and others. Good bibliographies.
Download or read book The Great Explorers written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents material selected from Morison's two earlier books--The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages, A.D. 500-1600 and The European Discovery of America: The The Southern Voyages, 1492-1616.
Download or read book The Empire of Reason written by Henry Steele Commager and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2000 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with a survey of the origins and growth of 18th century rationalism, the author explains how the realization of the great philosophers' ideals in Europe was inevitably frustrated by the counterweight of tradition and privilege. He points out that in America there were no such barriers. The principles of the Enlightenment were written into law, crystallised into institutions, and sanctified by use. Although democracy was not absolute (the existence of slavery remained unquestioned), in comparison with Europe, America could justifiably claim to be incorporating the ideals of 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' into the daily lives of her people. The result was the start of an American revolution as significant as the winning of independence and the creation of a nation. This book is a valuable contribution to our understanding of America's past - essential both for a true appreciation of America's European origins and for her subsequent development into the 20th century."Learning and reason are at the service of a mind whose understanding of democracy gains brilliance and power from a passion for democratic freedom." Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Download or read book The British in the Americas 1480 1815 written by Anthony Mcfarlane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of northern European nations, the British had the greatest impact on the Americas. Their history there embraces far more than the colonies that became the United States: England had been in the New World for a century before those colonies were established, and the British presence long outlived their loss. This integrated account of that involvement spans the entire arc of British territories from the Caribbean to Canada, and the entire period from the first appearance of the English to the disintegration of the British and other Euro-American empires. A fascinating story, engrossingly told, it fills a major gap in current historiography.
Download or read book World of Our Fathers written by Irving Howe and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new 30th Anniversary paperback edition of an award-winning classic. Winner of the National Book Award, 1976 World of Our Fathers traces the story of Eastern Europe's Jews to America over four decades. Beginning in the 1880s, it offers a rich portrayal of the East European Jewish experience in New York, and shows how the immigrant generation tried to maintain their Yiddish culture while becoming American. It is essential reading for those interested in understanding why these forebears to many of today's American Jews made the decision to leave their homelands, the challenges these new Jewish Americans faced, and how they experienced every aspect of immigrant life in the early part of the twentieth century. This invaluable contribution to Jewish literature and culture is now back in print in a new paperback edition, which includes a new foreword by noted author and literary critic Morris Dickstein.
Download or read book The American Discovery of Europe written by Jack D. Forbes and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Discovery of Europe investigates the voyages of America's Native peoples to the European continent before Columbus's 1492 arrival in the "New World." The product of over twenty years of exhaustive research in libraries throughout Europe and the United States, the book paints a clear picture of the diverse and complex societies that constituted the Americas before 1492 and reveals the surprising Native American involvements in maritime trade and exploration. Starting with an encounter by Columbus himself with mysterious people who had apparently been carried across the Atlantic on favorable currents, Jack D. Forbes proceeds to explore the seagoing expertise of early Americans, theories of ancient migrations, the evidence for human origins in the Americas, and other early visitors coming from Europe to America, including the Norse. The provocative, extensively documented, and heartfelt conclusions of The American Discovery of Europe present an open challenge to received historical wisdom.
