English ships and seamen 1490-1600 -- John Cabot's voyages 1497-1798 -- Voyages to the Labrador and Newfoundland 1500-1536 -- The French maritime background 1453-1590 -- The voyages of Verrazzano 1524-1528 -- Cartier's first voyage 1534 -- Cartier's
second voyage 1535-1536 -- The search for Saguenay 1538-1543 -- Queen Elizabeth and her master mariners -- Frobisher's second and third voyages 1577-1578 -- The northern voyages of John Davis 1585-1587 -- Christopher Columbus -- His "enterprise of the Indies" -- Columbus's first voyage of discovery, August-October 1492 -- The greater Antilles, 12 October 1492-15 March 1493 -- Triumph and tragedy, March 1493-April 1494 -- Jamaica, Cuba, and rebellion, 1494-1496 -- Third voyage, mainland discovered, 1498-1500 -- The mariner's day -- Columbus's fourth voyage, 1502-1504 -- Ferdinand Magellan -- Armada de Molucca, 1517-1519 -- Magellan's voyage to the strait, 1519-1520 -- "The strait that shall forever bear his name," October-November 1520 -- Across the Pacific -- Philippines and Spice Islands -- Homeward bound, 1522 -- Drake's voyage of circumnavigation, 1577-1579 -- Drake in California, 1579.
Presents material selected from Morison's two earlier books--The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages, A.D. 500-1600 and The European Discovery of America: The Southern Voyages, 1492-1616.
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