Description

First Edition, book club issue. Profusely illustrated in black and white throughout with one colour frontispiece painting. 8vo, publisher's original navy blue cloth over mustard boards. Gilt lettered and decorated on the spine, in the original pictorial dustjacket. xviii, 712 pp. A fine copy, the dust jacket very good with minor rubbing.

Edizione: a handsome and pleasing copy. "a great historian and a superb prose stylist presents in these pages a comprehensive and brilliantly readable account of all known voyages across the north atlantic to the new world prior to 1600, and of the intrepid mariners, and the adventurers who sent them forth. the roll call includes all the great explorers: leif ericsson, john cabot, verrazzano, gomez, jacques cartier, martin frobisher, john davis, sir walter raleigh and his kinsmen greenville and gilbert, and a full gathering of their competitors."<br>