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Texts

Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo  
Cabrillo's Log, 1542-1543: A Voyage of Discovery. A Summary by Juan Páez. (pb) £8.50

Vasco da Gama
Vasco da Gama: The Diary of his Travels through African Waters, 1497-1499. Eric Axelson, trans. (hb) £40.00

André Thevet
Portraits from the Age of Exploration: Selections "Les vrais pourtraits et views des hommes illustres"; ed. Roger Schlesinger; trans. Edward Benson. (hb) £8.50


Reference

Silvio A. Bedini, ed.
Christopher Columbus and the Age of Exploration: An Encyclopedia. (pb) £9.50 



Secondary works

R. C. Bridges and P. E. H. Hair, eds. 
Compassing the Vast Globe of the Earth: Studies in the History of the Hakluyt Society, 1846-1996. (hb) £25.00  

Edward Burman
The World Before Columbus, 1100-1492. (hb) £8.00

Don Carleton
Ireland the Great: How the Irish brought Christianity to North America 1500 years ago. (pb) £6.50 

Christopher Falkus
Life in the Age of Exploration. (hb) £4.50 

Irene M. Franck & David M. Brownstone
Across Africa and Arabia. (hb) £5.00 

Jennifer R. Goodman
Chivalry and Exploration 1268-1630. (hb) £20.00 

Cyrus H. Gordon
Before Columbus: Links Between the Old World and Ancient America. (hb) £10.00 

John Hale
Renaissance Exploration. (pb) £3.50 

J. J. Jusserand
English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages; 4th edn. (pb) £6.50

Robert McGhee
The Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher: An Elizabethan Adventure. (hb) £3.50

De Lamar Jensen, ed. 
The Expansion of Europe: Motives, Methods, and Meanings. (pb) £4.00

Margaret Wade Labarge
Medieval Travellers: The Rich and Restless. (hb) £10.00

Dan O'Sullivan 
The Age of Discovery 1400-1550. (pb) £3.00

J. H. Parry
The Age of Reconnaissance: Discovery, Exploration and Settlement 1450-1650. (pb) £3.00
The Discovery of the Sea. (hb) £12.00

Kirsten A. Seaver
The Frozen Echo: Greenland and the Exploration of North America ca. A.D. 1000-1500. (pb) £12.50

G. V. Scammell
The Great Age of Discovery, 1400-1650
. (pb)
£3.00  



Books & journals containing related material

David Abulafia
Spain and 1492: Unity and Uniformity under Ferdinand and Isabella. (pb) £6.50

E. G. Bowen
Saints, Seaways and Settlements in the Celtic Lands. (hb) £18.50

R. C. Bridges and P. E. H. Hair, eds. 
Compassing the Vast Globe of the Earth: Studies in the History of the Hakluyt Society, 1846-1996. (hb) £25.00  

Henrietta Buckmaster
All About Sir Walter Raleigh. (hb) £3.50

Bernal Diaz
The Conquest of New Spain. J. M. Cohen, trans. (hb, Folio Society) £8.00

Norman H. Finkelstein
The Other 1492: Jewish Settlement in the New World. (pb) £4.50 

Giraldus Cambrensis [Gerald of Wales]
The Itinerary through Wales; Description of Wales; trans. R. C. Hoare; intro. W. Llewelyn Williams. (hb) £8.50

Stephen Greenblatt
Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World. (pb) £8.00

Siegfried Huber
Entdecker und Eroberer: Deutsche Konquistadoren in Südamerika mit Zeitgenössischen Erlebnisberichten und Dokumenten. (hb) £14.00 

Jacob d'Ancona, trans. David Selbourne
The City of Light. (hb) £9.00

Donald S. Johnson
Phantom Islands of the Atlantic: The Legends of Seven Lands That Never Were. (hb) £8.50

Charles Kightly
A Mirror of Medieval Wales: Gerald of Wales and His Journey of 1188. (pb) £4.50 

Barnet Litvinoff
1492: The Year and the Era. (hb) £10.00 

Gavin Menzies
1421: The Year China Discovered the World. (hb) £9.50

Michel Mollat and Paul Adam, eds. 
Les aspects internationaux de la découverte océanique aux XVe et XVIe siècles: Actes du cinquième Colloque International d'Histoire Maritime. (pb) £19.50

Adriano Prosperi & Wolfgang Reinhard, eds.
Il Nuovo Mondo nella coscienza italiana e tedesca del Cinquecento. (pb) £9.50 

Roger Schlesinger
In the Wake of Columbus: The Impact of the New World on Europe, 1492-1650. (pb) £4.50 

Tim Severin 
The Brendan Voyage: an epic crossing of the Atlantic by leather boat. (hb) £3.50
The Brendan Voyage. (pb) £2.00
In Search of Genghis Khan. (hb) £9.50
The Sinbad Voyage. (hb) £7.00

Andrew Sinclair
The Sword and the Grail: Of the Grail and the Templars and a True Discovery of America. (hb) £14.00 

Jennifer C. Ward
English Noblewomen in the Later Middle Ages. (hb) £22.00
English Noblewomen in the Later Middle Ages. (pb) £11.00

Alfred Watkins
The Old Straight Track: Its Mounds, Beacons, Moats, Sites and Mark Stones. (pb) £4.50

Ian Wilson
The Columbus Myth: Did Men of Bristol Reach America Before Columbus? (hb) £6.00 

C. M. Woolgar
The Great Household in Late Medieval England. (hb) £9.50

 
 
 
 


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