Title: Excellent
Product review: Compact writing, non-sentimental, ...this book is excellent. It incorporates quite a bit of shipboard terminology and habits that remind me of Samuel Eliot's "Admiral of the Ocean Sea," about Columbus.To open the book, Laurence Bergreen offers a good description of the turbulent politics of Spain vs. Portugal before and during the expedition. Then he goes on to relate a fascinating and readable history of the world-changing voyage.Lovely work.Bonus -- My P.S. edition has illustrations and a handy map at the front, but lacks more detailed maps.
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