... which tends to abbreviate one’s reading time. What most attracted my eye is the one called, “The First Discovery of Calicut.” It lists German firms which outfitted ships as early as 1505: these included the Weiser, Fugger, Hochstetter, and Hirschvogel. In 1506, the account mentions loss of a ship...

... by demonstrating how seventeenth-century pirates attempted to fill the gap left when Spanish explorers abandoned their interest in the settlement of the northern Gulf. Beginning with the discovery of the Gulf of Mexico in 1508, Weddle presents and analyzes Spanish and English explorations and entradas...

...C. R. Boxer The Age of Reconnaissance: Discovery, Exploration and Settlement 1450 to 1650 . By Parry J. H. . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1982 . Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Index . Pp. vii , 366 . Cloth . $25.00 . Paper . $8.95 . The World Encompassed...

... peoples but with attention also to the English, French, and Dutch, of the sea voyages, land discoveries, and earliest conquests in the Old World and the New. Part III, also in six chapters, describes the empires, once founded, and discusses their economies, the character of their colonists, and the nature...

...Donald C. Cutter It seems that the “eyes of discovery” were myopic and astigmatic. Though the sub-title promises a pageant of North America, the book is interested only in those portions which are now part of the United States, with some accommodation for Lower Canada. The “eyes of discovery...

...Robert H. Fuson Lodestone and Evening Star. The Epic Voyages of Discovery, 1493 B.C.-1896 A.D . By Cameron Ian . New York , 1965 . E. P. Dutton & Company . Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 288 . $6.95 . Copyright 1967 by Duke University Press 1967...

...Frances K. Hendricks Coronado and the Discovery of the Southwest . By Day A. Grove . New York , 1967 . Meredith Press . Illustrations. Maps. Index . Pp. ix , 191 . $4.95 . Copyright 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 In a clear, well-balanced narrative Grove Day has...

..., Menlo Park .) San Francisco Bay. Discovery and Colonization, 1769-1776 . By Treutlein Theodore E. . San Francisco , 1968 . California Historical Society . Illustrations. Notes. Appendices . Pp. ix , 152 . $10.00 . ( Distributed by Lane Magazine and Book Company, Menlo Park...

... of its capitalistic aspects. He shows how the business of discovery became a legalized form of private enterprise with stockholders’ meetings, dividends, insurance, and even thinly disguised interest on loans. To compare the value of things is always difficult, but Vigneras’ archives show...

...Joseph Sánchez Geographic and Hydrographic Descriptions of Many Northern and Southern Lands and Seas in the Indies, Specifically the Discovery of the Kingdom of California . By de Cardona Nicolás . Translated and edited by Mathes W. Michael . Los Angeles, California , 1974...

...Louis-André Vigneras The Great Explorers: The European Discovery of America . By Morison Samuel Eliot . 2d ed. New York , 1978 . Oxford University Press . Illustrations. Maps. Index . Pp. xxv , 752 . Cloth. $17.95 . Copyright 1979 by Duke University Press 1979...

...Roscoe R. Hill The Story of the Americas: The Discovery, Settlement, and Development of the New World . By Baldwin Leland Dewitt . ( New York : Simon and Schuster , 1943 . Pp. x , 720 . $3.50 .) Copyright 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 ...

...Thomaz Oscar Marcondes de Souza, F. R. G. S. Copyright 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 NOTES AND COMMENTS A SUPPOSED DISCOVERY OF BRAZIL BEFORE 1448 In the Bibliotheca Ambrosiana of Milan there exists a portolano of Europe and Africa drawn in London in 1448 by the Venetian navigator...

...Charles W. Spellman The Discovery of Florida and Its Discoverer, Juan Ponce de Leon . By Lawson Edward W. . ( St. Augustine : 1946 . Pp. 127 . $2.50 .) Copyright 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 ...

...Kristie Patricia Flannery Although Reséndez does not engage with the literature on Black mariners in the age of sail, this study of Lope Martín's complicated role in maritime conquests is an important contribution to the field. English-language studies of European voyages of discovery...

...John Walton Caughey Vancouver’s Discovery of Puget Sound: Portraits and Biographies of the Men Honored in the Naming of Geographic Features of Northwestern America . By Meant Edmond S. . ( Portland, Oregon : Binfords and Mort, Publishers , 1942 . Pp. xvii , 344 , 2nd ed., $2.50...

...Rafael Heliodoro Valle The Discovery and, Conquest of Mexico . 1517-1521 . By del Castillo Bernal Díaz , one of its conquerors. Edited from the only exact copy of the original manuscript by García Genaro . Translated, with introduction and notes, by Maudslay A. P...

...C. E. Castañeda The Discovery of New Spain in 1518 by Juan de Grijalva . A Translation of the Original Texts with an Introduction and Notes by Wagner Henry R. . ( Pasadena : The Cortés Society , 1942 . Pp. 207 . $7.50 .) Copyright 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 ...