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Edward Burman.
The World Before Columbus, 1100-1492.

Published London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1989.
ISBN 0245547304.
ISBN-13: 9780245547300.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Mackays of Chatham.
Size: 159x240x28mm.
Page count: text x,227pp; plates 8pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy has some scuffs on its dustjacket, a bit of wear at the edges and corners; page edges foxed; some roughened patches on some of the plate pages, possibly due to earlier storage in a humid atmosphere; text appears to be free of marking.


This item £6.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 584g.

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Contents: External world discovered & lost; Opening eastward — contact with Islam; Towards Asia — missionaries — diplomats — merchants; Opening southward — into Africa; Halt — prevalence of myth & legend; Mandeville’s ‘Travels’; Portuguese ‘discovery’ of Africa; Opening westward — before Columbus.

Illustrations: 8 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: no

Notes: no
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 13pp
Index: yes


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