1st Edition

Amerigo Vespucci Pilot Cb Amerigo Vespucci Pilot Ma

By Frederick Julius Pohl Copyright 1967
280 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1967.  This volume looks at the voyages of Americo Vespucio, to use the Spanish form of the name Amerigo Vespucci, who sailed to the West under the Spanish flag in 1499 and again in 1501 when he sailed to gain geographical information for the King of Portugal who like the King of Spain had been confused by the contradictory reports of Columbus. Columbus to his death... Read more
Ptolemy's Challenge; Part 1 Amerigo; Part 2 From Merchant to Explorer; Part 3 The Voyage for Spain; Part 4 Vespucci's Letter from Seville, L500; Part 5 Changing Flags; Part 6 The Voyage for Portugal; Part 7 Vespucci's Letters from Cape Verde, 1501, and Lisbon, 1502; Part 8 The Discovery of a Continent; Part 9 The Forgeries; Part 10 The Naming of a Continent; Part 11 Organizing Navigation;

Biography

J. POHL FREDERICK