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Prelude to Empire: Portugal Overseas Before Henry the Navigator

Prelude to Empire: Portugal Overseas Before Henry the Navigator

Diffie, Bailey W.

Paperback

Series: Bison Book S

ExplorationGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0803250495
ISBN13: 9780803250499
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: Nov 1 1960
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Prelude to Empire spotlights and brings into focus the events and developments in European history which prepared the way for Henry the Navigator and the age of the Great Discoveries. Henry's just fame, writes Bailey W. Diffie, has obscured an essential fact: in 1415 he was a man with a past as well as a future. Some forty years lay before--some forty centuries lay behind. Just as the voyages of his captains would form the indispensable base for Columbus and Vasco de Gama, so the achievements which made Henry the dominating maritime figure of his time grew from the previous experience and generations of fishermen and traders.

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