TY  - BOOK
AU  - Parry,J.H.
TI  - The age of reconnaissance
AV  - G80 PAR 
PY  - 1963///
PB  - Weidenfeld and Nicolson
KW  - Discoveries in geography
KW  - Colonisation
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliography and index; Preface Introduction Part I. The Conditions for Discovery Part II. The Story of Discovery Part III. The Fruits of Discovery Conclusion Maps Notes Index
N2  - Covers the period during which Europe discovered the rest of the world, beginning with the mid-fifteenth century and ending 250 years later when the "Reconnaissance" was all but complete. The author examines the inducements--political, economic, religious--to overseas enterprise at the time, and analyzes the nature and problems of the various European settlements in the new lands
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