Ocean : A History of the Atlantic Before Columbus, John Haywood

Ocean : A History of the Atlantic Before Columbus, John HaywoodNew Paperback Ocean is an ambitious history of the pre Columbian Atlantic Ocean, 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, which provided a template for the methods used by the Spanish in their colonisation of the New World. John Haywood argues that the perception that Atlantic history begins with the first voyage of

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