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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
CURIOSITY, Adventure Travel, Exploration, Trade, War, Murder: The European Expansion, 15th to 20th Century

CURIOSITY, Adventure Travel, Exploration, Trade, War, Murder: The European Expansion, 15th to 20th Century

Read, James B.

Paperback

Travel Writing

ISBN10: 1539496368
ISBN13: 9781539496366
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Feb 3 2017
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

A fast-paced narrative exploration of adventure, discovery, and murder while each evolving empire seeks to annihilate the current owner of the trade monopoly. This maritime history, unwinding through the eyes of a sailor, is both educational and engaging on a personal level. Consider whether Marco Polo was for real, did Prince Henry the Navigator, by himself, open the curtain for discovery, why did the Portuguese Empire barely last one hundred years, how did an Egyptian scientist determine the circumference of the earth long before Christ, what was the medieval stopwatch, how did a one-armed, one-eyed, 135-pound British sailor upstage Napoleon at every opportunity and prevent an invasion from France? This and much more.

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