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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 4.18 — 18,628 ratings — published 2003
Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,966 ratings — published 2008
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,376 ratings — published 2015
Holy War: How Vasco da Gama's Epic Voyages Turned the Tide in a Centuries-Old Clash of Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,320 ratings — published 2011
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 4.12 — 20,731 ratings — published 2011
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,764 ratings — published 2007
The Conquest of New Spain (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,572 ratings — published 1568
Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492 - 1830 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 3.99 — 491 ratings — published 2006
Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,313 ratings — published 2002
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 3.72 — 4,233 ratings — published 1552
Columbus: The Four Voyages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,958 ratings — published 2011
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 4.05 — 93,818 ratings — published 2005
The Race to the New World: Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, and a Lost History of Discovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 3.54 — 70 ratings — published 2011
Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,052 ratings — published 2020
Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521 - 1580 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 4.29 — 6,769 ratings — published 2008
River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,726 ratings — published 2011
The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,831 ratings — published 2004
Robinson Crusoe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 3.68 — 327,234 ratings — published 1719
Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 4.12 — 526 ratings — published 1942
In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,743 ratings — published 2021
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,286 ratings — published 2003
The Age of Reconnaissance: Discovery, Exploration, and Settlement, 1450-1650 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 3.82 — 115 ratings — published 1963
Champlain's Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,669 ratings — published 2008
Voyages and Discoveries: Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 3.57 — 162 ratings — published 1589
Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean: The Adventurous Life of Captain Woodes Rogers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 3.62 — 362 ratings — published 2011
Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 3.65 — 428 ratings — published 2010
The Old World and the New: 1492 - 1650 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 3.61 — 124 ratings — published 1970
Letters from Mexico (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 3.67 — 738 ratings — published 1521
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 3.99 — 75,522 ratings — published 1995
The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 3.48 — 824 ratings — published 1530
History of the Conquest of Mexico (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 4.17 — 775 ratings — published 1843
The Great Explorers: The European Discovery of America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 4.05 — 105 ratings — published 1978
The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Mutiny, Shipwreck, and Discovery (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,638 ratings — published 2005
The Dinosaur Hunters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,056 ratings — published 2000
Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,033 ratings — published 1542
Brutal Journey: The Epic Story of the First Crossing of North America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 3.98 — 587 ratings — published 2000
Imperial Spain, 1469 - 1716 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 3.89 — 902 ratings — published 1960
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,008 ratings — published 2003
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,342 ratings — published 2008
A Secret Atlas (The Age of Discovery, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,432 ratings — published 2005
Puerto Rico: A National History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 4.31 — 714 ratings — published 2024
Congo Stories: Battling Five Centuries of Exploitation and Greed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 4.06 — 140 ratings — published 2018
Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World, 1492–1640 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 3.76 — 133 ratings — published 1995
America Discovery and Exploration (America, Great Crises In Our History Told by it's Makers Book 1)
by (shelved 1 time as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Mysterious Life of Ponce de Leon (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published
The Last Days of the Incas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 4.20 — 6,993 ratings — published 2007
This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 4.03 — 169 ratings — published
Ice Blink: the Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition (CD-ROM)
by (shelved 1 time as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
The Claimant: The Extraordinary Story of the Butcher Who Said He Was a Baronet (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 3.84 — 37 ratings — published
Jane Austen's England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as age-of-discovery)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,811 ratings — published 2013
“We have been witnessing a rebirth of psychedelic research since the early 2000s. Due to the fact we are in what many people call the Psychedelic Renaissance, one cannot help but draw comparisons to the European Renaissance that spanned the 15th and 16th centuries. An equally significant age, one that started around the same time and lasted another century or so, was the Age of Discovery. If we are in a Psychedelic Renaissance, and keeping in mind that history regularly repeats itself, it would be reasonable to assume that a parallel set of activities with matching enthusiasm will happen, what I call the Psychedelic Age of Discovery.”
― RISE OF THE PSYCHONAUT: Maps for Amateurs, Nonscientists and Explorers in the Psychedelic Age of Discovery
― RISE OF THE PSYCHONAUT: Maps for Amateurs, Nonscientists and Explorers in the Psychedelic Age of Discovery
“Infante Dom Henrique de Avis, Duke of Viseu, better known as Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal, was the fifth child of King John I. The prince was a responsible ruler and is remembered for developing Portugal’s trade routes with foreign countries, exploring the islands along the central spine of the Atlantic Ocean and sailing along the western coast of Africa in search of new trade routes to the Far East.
The 15th century was exciting as well as dangerous. It was a time when exploring meant going to sea and discovering new lands inhabited by many people that were previously unknown to Europeans. The explorations started in about 1418, when two Portuguese ships were inadvertently driven off-course by a storm. The vessels grounded onto the island now known as Porto Santos. The captains, João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira, who had been commissioned by Prince Henry the Navigator, saw heavy clouds in the distance, under which lay the island of Madeira. Eight years later, Diogo de Silves discovered islands north of Madeira, now known as the Azores.”
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The 15th century was exciting as well as dangerous. It was a time when exploring meant going to sea and discovering new lands inhabited by many people that were previously unknown to Europeans. The explorations started in about 1418, when two Portuguese ships were inadvertently driven off-course by a storm. The vessels grounded onto the island now known as Porto Santos. The captains, João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira, who had been commissioned by Prince Henry the Navigator, saw heavy clouds in the distance, under which lay the island of Madeira. Eight years later, Diogo de Silves discovered islands north of Madeira, now known as the Azores.”
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