[PDF.75xx] Vanguard of Empire: Ships of Exploration in the Age of Columbus

Vanguard of Empire: Ships of Exploration in the Age of Columbus

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 | #3152821 in Books |  1993-04-08 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.50 x1.10 x6.38l, | File type: PDF | 328 pages

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|| |"Oxford University Press deserves plaudits for the copy-editing, clear (and copious) line illustrations, and indexes. This is a solidly researched, well-written analysis of an important topic and an invaluable reference work from which historians, archivists,

In this book, Smith has assembled a portrait of the small vessels invented and refined in the shipyards of Spain and Portugal half a millennium ago. He focuses on the advances in maritime technology that made the European conquest of the New World possible. Shipwrights worked by trial and error to make ships that would travel faster and farther, carrying larger and larger cargoes. Pilots developed new methods of celestial navigation and learned the patterns of wind an...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Vanguard of Empire: Ships of Exploration in the Age of Columbus   |  Roger C. Smith. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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