Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination by Joyce Appleby

Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination

Joyce Appleby

308 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction historical history science informative slow-paced
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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 Penins...

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