Ocean - Haywood, John
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A "history of the pre-Columbian Atlantic seas, Ocean is a story that begins with the formation of the mid-Atlantic ridge some 200 million years ago and ends with the Castilian conquest of the Canary Islands in the fifteenth century, providing a template for the methods used by the Spanish in their colonization of the New World. John Haywood ... argues that the perception of Atlantic history beginning with the first voyage of the celebrated Genoese navigator Christopher Columbus is a mistaken one, and that the seafaring and shipbuilding skills that enabled European global exploration and…mehr

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A "history of the pre-Columbian Atlantic seas, Ocean is a story that begins with the formation of the mid-Atlantic ridge some 200 million years ago and ends with the Castilian conquest of the Canary Islands in the fifteenth century, providing a template for the methods used by the Spanish in their colonization of the New World. John Haywood ... argues that the perception of Atlantic history beginning with the first voyage of the celebrated Genoese navigator Christopher Columbus is a mistaken one, and that the seafaring and shipbuilding skills that enabled European global exploration and expansion did not arrive fully formed in the fifteenth century, but instead were learned over centuries and millennia in the Atlantic and its peripheral seas. The pre-Columbian history of the Atlantic is the story of how Europeans learned to master the oceans"--
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Autorenporträt
John Haywood is a British historian, author, and graduate in medieval history from the universities of Lancaster, Cambridge, and Copenhagen. He has written over twenty books on a wide range of historical topics, but his main interests are the Vikings, maritime history, and historical maps. John's books include The Penguin Atlas of Vikings, The New Atlas of World History, and Northmen. He now divides his time between writing and working for Road Scholar, an American travel company where he leads and lectures to tour groups in Iceland, Scandinavia, and the Baltic. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain. When not traveling, John resides in England.