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Boies Penrose
Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance
1[zasłonięte]420-16
Harvard University Press 1960
Stron 393, format: 16x24 cm
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A.LL the color and sweep of the seafaring Renaissance are in this book, all the high romance and adventure of the great expeditions and the travels of single ships to Africa, India, Asia, and the New World. Columbus is here, and the Conquistadores and El Dorado, the search for the Northwest Passage and the discovery of a seaway to India — the stories of travelers from Marco Polo to Sir Francis Drake, who stretched a continent into a world.
In what is, strangely enough, the first one-volume history of Renaissance exploration in English, Mr. Penrose outlines the progress of travel, geographical thought and theory, and colonization in the period of the great discoveries, when Europeans first made their way in large numbers into non-European areas. He writes of the classical and medieval background of voyages and travels, of the free-lance travelers from Nicolo Conti to Tom Coryate, of the early Portuguese voyages to Africa and India, of the rise of Portugal's eastern Empire and its decline. He describes the early exploration of North America, and tells the story of 16th-century voyaging in the Pacific. He tells of England's contribution — the search for a northern passage to India, the Age of Drake, and the rise of the East India Company; of the Dutch ex,-,, plorers and the discovery of Australia; of the effective colonization of North America by the French and English. And scattered across the broad canvas of his story stand the fascinating, living personalities of history: Uzun Hasan, who
The illustration on this jacket is reproduced through the courtesy of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England. married the daughter of the Emperor of Trebizond and usurped the throne of Persia; the epic figure of Prince Henry of Portugal, called "The Navigator"; the legendary Prester John, priest and king of fabulous wealth; Francis Xavier, the heroic missionary saint; Luis de Camoens, the great epic poet.
Mr. Penrose has not neglected the fascinating bypaths of these sagas of courage and daring. He gives lucid descriptions of Renaissance map-making and ship design; his chapter on the geographical literature of the Renaissance — Portuguese, Spanish, Continental, and Tudor — is unique. Navigational theory forms an absorbing part of his chronicle of early exploration.
Boies Penrose has made the study of Renaissance geography a life-long hobby, and has written two other books, The Sherleian Odyssey and Urbane Travellers, on Renaissance exploration and voyaging. He is vice president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. His book will be of the highest interest to the scholar; his bibliography, arranged by chapters, comprises about 500 books, often with critical notes. Any reader, however, who is interested in geography, adventure, and exploration may here find — unencumbered by footnotes — the wonderful story of travel in the heroic period of discovery.
CONTENTS
1. THE BACKGROUND-CLASSICAL AND MEDIEVAL: THEORY • MYTH • ACTUALITY 1
2. SOME FREE-LANCE TRA VELERS OF THE EARL Y RENAISSANCE 21
3. HENRY THE NA VIGA TOR AND THE AFRICAN VO YA GES 33
4 THE PORTUGUESE IN THE ORIENT 48
5 THE COLUMBIAN VOYAGES 77
6 THE CONQUISTADORES 93
7 EASTERN SOUTH AMERICA 112
8 AFRICA IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 125
9 THE EARLY EXPLORATION OF NORTH AMERICA 142
10 MAGELLAN AND HIS SUCCESSORS 155
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MOLUCCAS AND PHILIPPINES
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THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS
11 THE SEARCH FOR THE NOR THERN PASS A GES 169
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THE NORTHEAST PASSAGE
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THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE
12 THE AGE OF DRAKE 181
13 THE ENGLISH AND DUTCH REACH THE ORIENT 193
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JENKINSON AND THE PERSIAN TRADE
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PENETRATION THROUGH THE LEVANT
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LANCASTER AND HIS SUCCESSORS
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THE SOUTHERN CONTINENT
14 TOURISTS IN THE EAST 213
15 THE EARLY COLONIZATION OF NORTH AMERICA 229
16 THE CARTOGRAPHY AND NAVIGATION OF THE RENAISSANCE 241
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THE MANUSCRIPT TRADITION
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PRINTED MAPS OF THE RENAISSANCE
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THE SCIENCE OF NAVIGATION
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SHIP DESIGN IN THE DAYS OF THE GREAT DISCOVERIES
1 7 THE GEOGRAPHICAL LITERA TÜRE OF THE RENAISSANCE
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THE LITERATURE OF THE PORTUGUESE DISCOVERIES AND CONQUESTS
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THE LITERATURE OF SPANISH OVERSEAS ENTERPRISE
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THE GEOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE OF THE REMAINDER OF CONTINENTAL EUROPE
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TUDOR GEOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE
18 CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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