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Title: |
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels |
| Sub-title: |
Volume 2 |
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| By (author): |
Robert Kerr |
| ISBN10-13: |
1536172731 : 9781536172737 |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Pages: |
358 |
| Weight: |
.854 Kg. |
| Published: |
Nova Science Publishers, Inc - March 2020 |
| List Price: |
203.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Subjects: |
General & world history : European history : Political science & theory |
| A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels by Robert Kerr is an 18 volume set that contains the complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land. In determining upon an era for the commencement of this work, Kerr was led, from a consideration of the accidental discovery of Iceland by the Norwegians in the ninth century, to adopt that period as the beginning of the series, both because the commencement of modern maritime discovery took place during the reign of a British sovereign, and because we derive the earliest written accounts of any of these discoveries from the pen of that excellent prince. It is true that the first accidental discovery of Iceland appears to have been made in 861, eleven years before the accession of Alfred to the throne; yet, as the actual colonization of that island did not take place till the year 878, the seventh of his glorious reign, we have been induced to distinguish the actual commencement of maritime discovery by the modern European nations as coinciding with his era. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Preface; PART I (Continued): Voyages and Travels of Discovery, from the Era of Alfred, King of England, in the Ninth Century, to the Era of Don Henry, Prince of Portugal, at the commencement of the Fifteenth Century -- Account of various early Pilgrimages from England to the Holy Land, between the years 1097, and 1107; Discovery of Madeira; Account of the Discovery and Conquest of the Canary Islands. PART II: General Voyages and Travels, chiefly of Discovery; from the era of Don Henry Prince of Portugal, in 1412, to that of George III. in 1760 -- BOOK I. History of the Discoveries of the Portuguese along the Coast of Africa, and of their Discovery of and Conquests in India, from 1412 to 1505; Summary of the Discoveries of the World, from their first original, to the year 1555, by Antonio Galvano; Journey of Ambrose Contarini, Ambassador from the Republic of Venice, to Uzun-Hassan King of Persia, in the years 1473, 4, 5, and 6 written by himself; Voyages of Discovery by the Portuguese along the Western Coast of Africa, during the life, and under the direction of Don Henry; Original Journals of the Voyages of Cada Mosto, and Pedro de Cintra, to the Coast of Africa the former in the years 1455 and 1406, and the latter soon afterwards; Continuation of the Portuguese Discoveries along the Coast of Africa, from the death of Don Henry in 1463, to the Discovery of the Cape of Good Hope in 1486; History of the Discovery and Conquest of India by the Portuguese, between the years 1497 and 1505, from the original Portuguese of Hernan Lopez de Castaneda; Letters from Lisbon in the beginning of the Sixteenth Century, respecting the then recent Discovery of the Route by Sea to India, and the Indian trade; Index. |
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