A time before time -- A view of the world -- Into a wider world -- Visitors from Asia? -- Beyond the Indies? -- Of maps and myth and power -- The Spanish explorers -- The merchant mariners -- Discovery widens -- A changing image -- The English quest
-- an end and a beginning.
Six centuries before the birth of Christ people began to imagine an immense land at the bottom of the world; a land of marvel, wealth and mystery. This book is the story of the quest that compelled men to in small ships to traverse unknown seas in search of the sixth continent.
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