Discovery: The Quest for the Great South Land by Miriam Estensen

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages are sunned. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are still very good.

Six centuries before the birth of Christ, people began to imagine an immense land at the bottom of the world, a land of marvels, of enormous wealth and mystery. Discovery is the story of the quest that compelled men in small ships to traverse unknown seas, endure extraordinary hardships, and slowly unveil the sixth continent.

Miriam Estensen tells the absorbing tale of mapmakers and lonely caravels, Spanish hidalgos and Dutch merchants, remote coasts and castaways, buccaneers and deamers.