a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng

a Classification number E101

b Item number .N48 1969

a Dewey Classification 973.1

a Personal name Newton, Arthur Percival.

h Medium BOOK

a Title The great age of discovery /

c Statement of responsibility, etc edited: Arthur Percival Newton

a Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Books For Librariers Press,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 1969.

a Extent xi, 230 p. :

b Other physical details front., plates, ports., maps, facsims ;

c Dimensions 23 cm.

a General note Plates, etc., accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letterpress.

a General note "The substance of the contributions that are here published was included in a course of public lectures delivered in the Departments of history and geography in King's college, London, in the Lent term of 1931."--Pref.

a Bibliography, etc Bibliographical references in "Notes" at end of each chapter except the first.

a Formatted contents note Introduction.--the transition from the medieval to the modern age, by A.P. Newton.--Spanish civilisation in the great age of discovery, by A. Pastor.--Vasco da Gama and the way to the Indies, by E. Prestage.--Christopher Columbus and his first voyage, by A.P. Newton.--Asia or mundus novus? By A.P. Newton.--The first explorers of the North American coast, by H.P. Biggar.--The search for a western passage, by H.J. Wood.--The first circumnavigation, by J. A. Williamson.--The northern passages, by E.G.R. Taylor.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Discoveries in geography