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Author Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- author.
Title The great ages of discovery : how western civilization learned about a wider world / Stephen J. Pyne.
Publisher Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2021.
Copyright date ©2021


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Contents Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Prologue: Europe on the Edge -- BOOK I. VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY -- 1. The Renaissance Explores -- 2. Sails for the Wind to Fill -- 3. God, Gold, and Glory -- 4. Where No Human Being Ever Sailed -- 5. Isles -- 6. Portuguese Paradigm -- 7. The Armada de Molucca Circumnavigates the Globe -- 8. Encountering -- 9. The Other New World -- 10. The Great Conjunction -- 11. The Discoverers and the Discovered -- 12. Ebb Tide -- BOOK II. CORPS OF DISCOVERY -- 1. The Enlightenment Explores -- 2. Grand Tours and Great Excursions
3. Motives and Motivators -- 4. Something Old, Something New -- 5. Alexander von Humboldt Ascends the Heights -- 6. Crossing Continents -- 7. Second Looks, Repeat Encounters -- 8. Lost Horizons -- BOOK III. MISSIONS OF DISCOVERY -- 1. Modernism Explores -- 2. The Great Game Goes Global, and Beyond -- 3. Ice -- 4. Space -- 5. Abyss -- 6. Modern Exploration, Modernist Paradox -- 7. Voyager Traverses the Solar System -- 8. New Realms, New Regimes -- 9. Before and After -- 10. Looking Back, Looking Ahead -- Epilogue: Earth on the Edge -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
ISBN 9780816543045 (electronic bk.)
0816543046 (electronic bk.)
9780816541119
0816541116
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Author Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- author.
Subject Discoveries in geography -- History.
Voyages and travels -- History.
Electronic books.
Descript 1 online resource
Contents Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Prologue: Europe on the Edge -- BOOK I. VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY -- 1. The Renaissance Explores -- 2. Sails for the Wind to Fill -- 3. God, Gold, and Glory -- 4. Where No Human Being Ever Sailed -- 5. Isles -- 6. Portuguese Paradigm -- 7. The Armada de Molucca Circumnavigates the Globe -- 8. Encountering -- 9. The Other New World -- 10. The Great Conjunction -- 11. The Discoverers and the Discovered -- 12. Ebb Tide -- BOOK II. CORPS OF DISCOVERY -- 1. The Enlightenment Explores -- 2. Grand Tours and Great Excursions
3. Motives and Motivators -- 4. Something Old, Something New -- 5. Alexander von Humboldt Ascends the Heights -- 6. Crossing Continents -- 7. Second Looks, Repeat Encounters -- 8. Lost Horizons -- BOOK III. MISSIONS OF DISCOVERY -- 1. Modernism Explores -- 2. The Great Game Goes Global, and Beyond -- 3. Ice -- 4. Space -- 5. Abyss -- 6. Modern Exploration, Modernist Paradox -- 7. Voyager Traverses the Solar System -- 8. New Realms, New Regimes -- 9. Before and After -- 10. Looking Back, Looking Ahead -- Epilogue: Earth on the Edge -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
ISBN 9780816543045 (electronic bk.)
0816543046 (electronic bk.)
9780816541119
0816541116
Author Pyne, Stephen J., 1949- author.
Subject Discoveries in geography -- History.
Voyages and travels -- History.
Electronic books.

Subject Discoveries in geography -- History.
Voyages and travels -- History.
Electronic books.
Descript 1 online resource
Contents Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Prologue: Europe on the Edge -- BOOK I. VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY -- 1. The Renaissance Explores -- 2. Sails for the Wind to Fill -- 3. God, Gold, and Glory -- 4. Where No Human Being Ever Sailed -- 5. Isles -- 6. Portuguese Paradigm -- 7. The Armada de Molucca Circumnavigates the Globe -- 8. Encountering -- 9. The Other New World -- 10. The Great Conjunction -- 11. The Discoverers and the Discovered -- 12. Ebb Tide -- BOOK II. CORPS OF DISCOVERY -- 1. The Enlightenment Explores -- 2. Grand Tours and Great Excursions
3. Motives and Motivators -- 4. Something Old, Something New -- 5. Alexander von Humboldt Ascends the Heights -- 6. Crossing Continents -- 7. Second Looks, Repeat Encounters -- 8. Lost Horizons -- BOOK III. MISSIONS OF DISCOVERY -- 1. Modernism Explores -- 2. The Great Game Goes Global, and Beyond -- 3. Ice -- 4. Space -- 5. Abyss -- 6. Modern Exploration, Modernist Paradox -- 7. Voyager Traverses the Solar System -- 8. New Realms, New Regimes -- 9. Before and After -- 10. Looking Back, Looking Ahead -- Epilogue: Earth on the Edge -- Author's Note -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
ISBN 9780816543045 (electronic bk.)
0816543046 (electronic bk.)
9780816541119
0816541116
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