The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus

by David Abulafia

Book Overview

A new and fascinating perspective on the earliest phases of European exploration across the Atlantic Ocean

The first landings in the Atlantic World generated striking and terrifying impressions of unknown peoples who were entirely foreign to anything in European explorers' experience. From the first recorded encounters with the native inhabitants of the Canary Islands in 1341 to Columbus's explorations in 1492 and Cabral's discovery...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300158211
• ISBN13: 9780300158212
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.9"