The Age of Discovery explores one of the most dramatic features of the late medieval and early modern period: when voyagers from Western Europe led by Spain and Portugal set out across the world and established links with Africa, Asia and the Americas. This book examines the main motivations behind the voyages and discusses the developments in navigation expertise and technology that made them possible.
This second edition brings the scholarship up to date and includes two new chapters on the important topics of the idea of "discovery" and on biological and environmental factors which favoured or limited European expansion.
- ISBN10 0416360408
- ISBN13 9780416360400
- Publish Date November 1983
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 May 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Egmont UK Ltd
- Imprint Methuen young books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 50
- Language English