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Excerpt from The Voyages of the Cabots and the English Discovery of North America Under Henry VII and Henry VIII
The Columbian period of westward effort has become a cult with its initiates. The broad facts are plain, but little more. The preconceived ideas, the motives, the details, their sequence, the interpretation placed upon them, are disputable and offer problems of endless fascination. Maps exist and a few globes, to show how puzzling were the new facts to con temporaries. Their European and African coasts are well drawn, but those of the western Atlantic show merely that America became known. They ask, without answering, a series of questions. This northern shoreline, is it Labrador _or Greenland? Or both, independently reported, and fused in the cartographer''s mind? This channel, is it Davis Strait, or Hamilton Inlet, or perhaps the Gulf of St Lawrence? Did this explorer think he was following the coast of Cathay, or did he suspect a vast unheard-of con tinent? Who gave the names and planted the ?ags so early indicated on these shores? Such things the maps ask, and they are hard to answer.
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The Columbian period of westward effort has become a cult with its initiates. The broad facts are plain, but little more. The preconceived ideas, the motives, the details, their sequence, the interpretation placed upon them, are disputable and offer problems of endless fascination. Maps exist and a few globes, to show how puzzling were the new facts to con temporaries. Their European and African coasts are well drawn, but those of the western Atlantic show merely that America became known. They ask, without answering, a series of questions. This northern shoreline, is it Labrador _or Greenland? Or both, independently reported, and fused in the cartographer''s mind? This channel, is it Davis Strait, or Hamilton Inlet, or perhaps the Gulf of St Lawrence? Did this explorer think he was following the coast of Cathay, or did he suspect a vast unheard-of con tinent? Who gave the names and planted the ?ags so early indicated on these shores? Such things the maps ask, and they are hard to answer.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Author
James Alexander Williamson
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ISBN - 9780265600351
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Page Count - 329
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Author
James Alexander Williamson
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ISBN - 9780282932954
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Page Count - 331
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