Southern Voyages, A.D.1492-1616 (v. 2) (European Discovery of America) - Hardcover

Morison, Samuel Eliot

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0192159453 ISBN 13: 9780192159458

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1974

Synopsis

Physical description: 758 pages: ill; 24 cm. Subjects: Voyages and travels. America Discovery and exploration. 20th century texts history.

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Review

"Now [Morison] has united the latest findings of modern scholarship, American and European, to his own zestful explorations by land, sea and air, to produce a comprehensive and, for our day and age, definitive account of the process by which Europe substituted fact for fable and knowledge for ignorance about the New World across the Western Ocean....[A] unique combination of scholarship and fieldwork....Into these volumes is distilled a lifetime of experience--of sailing, of learning and of the sadly neglected art of historical narration. They are a joy and a treasure house."--Economist"The first comprehensive effort, in nearly a century, to bring the whole subject under a 20th-centry camera....Morison has been able to bring his reader something none of his predecessors has....This reviewer recalls no other recent historical narrative where there is a more helpful blending of illustration and text."--Christian Science Monitor"Irresistibly entertaining."--Newsweek"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

About the Author

About the Author The late Samuel Eliot Morison, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was the author of numerous books including The Oxford History of the American People, The Growth of the American Republic, and Admiral of the Ocean, a biography of Columbus.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192159453
• ISBN 13: 9780192159458
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 776