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The age of reconnaissance / J.H. Parry.
Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1981.Description: vii, 365 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmContent type:- text
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- 0520042352 (pbk.)
- G80 .P36 1981
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Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 348-351.
The Age of Reconnaissance, as J.H. Parry has so aptly named it, was the period during which Europe discovered the rest of the world. It began with Henry the Navigator and the Portuguese voyages in the mid-fifteenth century and ended 250 years later when the 'Reconnaissance' was all but complete.
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