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Shores of Knowledge
Joyce Appleby
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Description for Shores of Knowledge
Hardcover. An engrossing history of the voyages of exploration that ignited curiosity about nature and gave birth to modern science. Num Pages: 320 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX; RGR; WTLP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 27. Weight in Grams: 582.
When Columbus first returned to Spain from the Caribbean, he dazzled King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella with exotic parrots, tropical flowers, and bits of gold. Inspired by the promise of riches, countless seafarers poured out of the Iberian Peninsula and wider Europe in search of spices, treasure, and land. Many returned with strange tales of the New World. Curiosity began to percolate through Europe as the New World's people, animals, and plants ruptured prior assumptions about the biblical description of creation. The Church, long fearful of challenges to its authority, could no longer suppress the mantra Dare to ... Read more
When Columbus first returned to Spain from the Caribbean, he dazzled King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella with exotic parrots, tropical flowers, and bits of gold. Inspired by the promise of riches, countless seafarers poured out of the Iberian Peninsula and wider Europe in search of spices, treasure, and land. Many returned with strange tales of the New World. Curiosity began to percolate through Europe as the New World's people, animals, and plants ruptured prior assumptions about the biblical description of creation. The Church, long fearful of challenges to its authority, could no longer suppress the mantra Dare to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
582g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393239515
SKU
V9780393239515
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About Joyce Appleby
Joyce Appleby (1929-2016) was a professor of history emerita at UCLA and the author of The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism and coauthor of Telling the Truth about History, among many other works. A former president of the American History Association, she was awarded the 2009 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Prize for distinguished writing in American history from the ... Read more
Reviews for Shores of Knowledge
Like an exotic seed washed up from a distant land, Joyce Appleby's Shores of Knowledge blossoms in marvelous ways. This supple and sparkling chronicle of discovery shows why even Columbus was baffled by his myriad discoveries, and how Europeans gradually decoded the mysteries of the New World. A lucid account of cultural transmission.
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