Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination

by Joyce Appleby

Book Overview

When Columbus first returned to Spain from the Caribbean, he dazzled King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella with exotic parrots, tropical flowers, and bits of gold. Inspired by the promise of riches, countless seafarers poured out of the Iberian Peninsula and wider Europe in search of spices, treasure, and land. Many returned with strange tales of the New World. Curiosity began to percolate through Europe as the New World's people, animals, and plants...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393239519
• ISBN13: 9780393239515
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"