Vast horizons /
Stories of the exploits of discoverers from the time of the Crusaders to the day of great Portuguese explorers.
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OCLC: | 478419 |
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Language: | English |
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New York :
The Viking Press,
1943.
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Format: | Monograph Note that CRL will digitize material from the collection when copyright allows. |
Table of Contents:
- Trade in the time of the Crusades
- The rise of the Mongols
- Opening the way for trade
- The Polos -most famous of the traders
- The last of the early missionaries and the decline of the Mongols
- The sea of darkness
- Portugal to the front
- Past the Cape!
- Development of ships and navigation
- The first natives
- The coast grows
- The years after Henry's death
- The kingdom of Kongo
- Sofala and the Cape of Storms
- The line of demarcation
- "Christians and spices"
- Da Gama in India
- India by way of Brazil
- Francisco D'Almeida -first viceroy of India
- Rebellion
- Affonso D'Albuquerque -menace of the Moslems
- The gates swing wide
- Europeans in the Far East.