Prince Henry 'The Navigator': A Life. (Geographical Reviews).

The Geographical Review | July 1, 2001| | Copyright

PRINCE HENRY 'THE NAVIGATOR': A Life. By PETER RUSSELL. xvi and 448 pp.; maps, ills., bibliog., index. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0300082339.

On the jacket of this new biography the familiar face of Prince Henry greets us in a portrait that can claim no clear authenticity for its presumed subject. The single quotation marks in the title, Prince Henry 'The Navigator': A Life, announce both the fragility of the popular view of the historical figure, now about to be dismantled, and the fact that a new one, on a more certain ...

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