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Vanguard of Empire: Ships of Exploration in the Age of Columbus
Vanguard of Empire Ships of Exploration in the Age of Columbus
Author: Roger C. Smith
In this book, Smith has assembled a portrait of the small vessels invented and refined in the shipyards of Spain and Portugal half a millennium ago. He focuses on the advances in maritime technology that made the European conquest of the New World possible. Shipwrights worked by trial and error to make ships that would travel faster and farthe...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195073577
ISBN-10: 0195073576
Publication Date: 4/8/1993
Pages: 328
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Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr (Txt)
Book Type: Hardcover
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