Undiscovered Ocean: from Marco Polo to Francis Drake.(Book review)

The Geographical Journal | September 1, 2007| | Copyright

Undiscovered Ocean: from Marco Polo to Francis Drake. By ANTHONY DEANE

Stroud: Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2005, 288 pp. [pounds sterling]16.99 paperback ISBN 0 7524 3561 2

Undiscovered Ocean is a book full of fascinating stories of exploration and discovery, and the explorers and their crowns. Characters in these stories include Marco Polo (1254-1324), Zheng-He (1371-1433), Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), Vasco da Gama (1460-1524), Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512), Vasco Nunez de Balboa (1475-1519), Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521), Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596), ...

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