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The European Discovery of America 2 Volumes: The Northern Voyages AD 500-1600 and The Southern Voyages AD 1492-1616
EXNW00004New York: Oxford University Press WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Both volumes: tan cloth with navy blue cloth spine blue titles on front board & gilt titles on spine color frontispiece chapter bibliographies many b & w illustrations in text index DJs in Brodart archival covers. Northern Voyages: 1971 BOMC edition xviii 712 pp chapter notes; shaken front hinge repaired previous owner's address label on fpd else fine; DJ very good extremities rubbed; in Brodart archival cover. Southern Voyages: 1974 ISBN 0-19-501823-0 xvii 758 pp footnotes; Fine/Near Fine; DJ extremities lightly rubbed. In addition to being trained as an historian Morison was a sailor and served in the U. S. Navy during World War 2. He brings a sailor's knowledge and experience to all his books on voyages and discovery "has made transatlantic voyages under sail and coasted the eastern shores of the United States and Canada; and in preparation for this book Northern Voyages he flew at low altitude in a small plane from Maine to Labrador around the Gulf of St. Lawrence and along the North Carolina Outer Banks. These personal investigations have allowed him to identify almost every place mentioned by the discoverers." From the DJ for Southern Voyages: "Admiral Morison personally retraced the routes of the explorers he writes about including every part of Magellan's voyage which forms the core of the book." He had previously in the 1930s sailed the routes taken by Columbus in his four voyages in the cases where records survived to recreate them. Fits in medium flat-rate box. Shipping weight 6 lbs. . 23½ X 16 cm. Oxford University Press Hardcover
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