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J. H. Parry.
The Age of Reconnaissance: Discovery, Exploration and Settlement 1450-1650.
Published London: Cardinal/Sphere Books, 1973 (previously issued by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1963).
Series: History of Civilisation.
ISBN 0351177418.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Size: 128×195×25mm.
Page count: text 428pp; plates 16pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy has some scuffs and creases on its covers, the edges and corners rather rubbed; text pages yellowed with age; the spine is somewhat scuffed and curved, but not otherwise creased from reading, and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £6.00
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[Weidenfeld edn. in print at £16.99]
Weight without packaging: 446g.

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Contents: Attitudes & motives; Commercial experience & financial backing; Ships & shipbuilders; Pilotage & navigation; Charts & maps; Fighting capacity of men & ships; Africa & the Indian Ocean; Atlantic & South Sea; American conquests; Atlantic trade & piracy; New routes to the east; Fishing, fur trading & planting; Land empire of Spain; Sea empires of Portugal & Holland; Plantations & their trades; Migrations & dispersals; Colonial bureaucrats; Rights of conquerors & conquered.

Illustrations: 16 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: 5

Notes: at end of each chapter
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 4pp
Index: yes

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