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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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In Search of Trade and Fortune: John Cabot, Christopher Columbus and the Opening of the Atlantic

In Search of Trade and Fortune: John Cabot, Christopher Columbus and the Opening of the Atlantic

Towns, Lydia

Hardcover

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral European HistoryGeneral Latin American History

Publisher Price: $35.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date September 12, 2026

ISBN10: 183639182X
ISBN13: 9781836391821
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: Sep 12 2026
Pages: 352
Language: English
Reframes Cabot and Columbus within centuries of Atlantic trade and exploration.

What did John Cabot and Christopher Columbus truly achieve--and what did they inherit? In this compelling reassessment, Lydia Towns traces their voyages not as radical departures, but as chapters in a much older story of Atlantic navigation and commerce. Beginning with Celtic and Viking seafarers, she outlines the long prelude to the so-called Age of Exploration, showing how knowledge, ambition, and trade routes shaped the journeys of Cabot and Columbus. Drawing on recent scholarship, Towns reframes these figures within the systems they extended, not invented. She then follows their legacy into the modern age, examining how national myths, public memory, and political uses of history continue to shape our understanding of early exploration. Discovery, this book suggests, was never a solitary act.

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