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Journeys of the great explorers Columbus to Cook

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  • Author: Williams, Glyndwr
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2011
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    Copyrighted
    2004
    Summary:

    In this course, University of London history professor Glyndwr Williams will discuss one of the most dramatic periods in world history, the age of Europe's discovery of the world from Columbus and da Gama in the late fifteenth century to the voyages of James Cook in the eighteenth century.

    Contents:
    • The world before Columbus
    • The voyages of Christopher Columbus
    • The voyage of Vasco de Gama and the "Sea Road" to the east
    • The first circumnavigation : the voyage of Ferdinand Magellan
    • The second circumnavigation : the voyage of Francis Drake
    • The tools of discovery
    • Life at sea
    • Voyages of delusion : the search for the Northwest Passage
    • The Pacific Ocean : the great unknown
    • The "rambling voyages" of William Dampier
    • Vitus Bering and the Russian discovery of America
    • The Pacific voyages of James Cook
    • The revolution in navigation and health
    • The world after Cook.
    Genre:
    Travel writing, Biographies and autobiographies
    Subject(s): Discoveries in geography | Explorers | Voyages around the world
    Original Publisher: Prince Frederick, Md., Recorded Books
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781461806509