European Discovery of America. Complete in two volumes: The Northern Voyages A.D. 500-1600. and The Southern Voyages A.D. 1492-1612.
by Morison, Samuel Eliot
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Lake Elsinore, California, United States
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$60.00$42.00
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About This Item
New York: Oxford University Press. Near Fine. 1971/1974. Hardcover. First printings 1971/1974. Both volumes bound in mustard colored cloth with 1/4 navy spine. Bright, tight, clean impressions, corners modestly bumped. Both volumes profusely illustrated. Pages: xviii, 712, and xvii, 758. Indexed. "In this mellow book Morison blends pungent insight as a historian and extraordinary knowledge as a navigator, familiarity with the ancient sagas and graphic understanding of the dangers which the mariners encountered. He threads his way through the myths and national rivalries with a strong hand and salty wit....His scholarship is never forbidding, for throughout the narrative he is speaking as a twentieth-century admiral of the ocean sea, urbane, good humored, experienced, and acute in his reading of human nature. The notes are spicy and persuasive, the maps and illustrations profuse."--The Atlantic; Ex-Library; 8vo .
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- Seller
- E Ridge fine Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 9159
- Title
- European Discovery of America. Complete in two volumes: The Northern Voyages A.D. 500-1600. and The Southern Voyages A.D. 1492-1612.
- Author
- Morison, Samuel Eliot
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971/1974
- Keywords
- America - Discovery and exploration, DISCOVERies in geography, AMERICA, Voyages And Travels
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; History: United States; History: British, Russian & European;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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