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Samuel Eliot Morison.
The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages, AD 500-1600.
Published New York: Oxford U.P., 1971.
ISBN [0195013778].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: in the USA.
Size: 158x234x51mm.
Page count: xviii,712pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy has no dustjacket; the boards have some rubs and frays on the edges, noticeable but not too severe; looks generally ok internally, but with minor inked annotations on at least 2 pages, and a Roanoke commemorative stamp fixed on the title page.

This item £6.00
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Weight without packaging: 1172g.

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Contents: The mysterious ocean; St. Brendan & the Irish AD 400-600; Norsemen & Vinland, c. AD 800-1400; Flyaway islands & false voyages 1100-1492; English ships & seamen 1490-1600; John Cabot’s voyages 1497-98; Labrador & Newfoundland 1500-1536; French maritime background 1453-1590; Voyages of Verrazzano 1524-28; Gomez & Ayllón 1524-30; Cartier’s 1st voyage 1534 -- 2nd voyage 1535-36; Search for Saguenay 1538-43; England, France & the Northwest 1553-1600; Queen Elizabeth & her master mariners; Frobisher’s 2nd & 3rd voyages 1577-78; Hakluyt & Gilbert 1578-85; Northern voyages of John Davis 1585-87; 1st Virginia colony 1585-86; 2nd Virginia colony 1587-?

Illustrations: throughout, monochrome
Maps & plans: 28

Notes: at end of each chapter
Tables: 1
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: at end of each chapter
Index: yes

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