The Mitchell Beazley world atlas of exploration / by Eric Newby ; [maps by Anthony Nelthorpe] ; introduction by Sir Vivian Fuchs
Imprint
London : Mitchell Beazley Publishers, 1975
Descript
288 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm
CONTENT
Motive to move -- Monks, myths and magic lands -- Ancient world looks out -- Exploration by conquest -- Silken link -- North and west to a new world -- In the name of God and commerce -- Voyages of the three-jewel eunuch -- Beyond the barrier of fear -- Passage to India -- Land to be desired -- Magellan's vanishing fleet -- Collision of cultures -- To the spicerie, by our seas -- French find their 'terres neufves' -- Pioneers in the Pacific -- Netherlanders sail east -- Pacific: new men, new motives -- Asia: the cossack pioneers -- North America: the colonial cockpit -- South America: a land for scientists