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The Availability of Mandeville’s Travels in England, 1356—1750 By C.W.R.D. Moseley The Library, Vol.30 (1975) Introduction: The fourteenth-century Travels of Sir John Mandeville is extant in a very large number of manuscripts and scholars have always accepted that it was one of the most popular (if not the most popular) of medieval vernacular accounts of […]
The Zheng He Voyages: A Reassessment By Geoff Wade Paper given at the New Dimensions in Humanities Education conference, 2008 Abstract: The Ming eunuch navigator Zheng He is lauded in contemporary China as a great maritime voyager, an ambassador of peace and friendship, and a potent symbol for Chinese patriotic education. The eunuch and his […]
An Important Waypoint on Passage of Navigation History: Zheng He’s Sailing to West Ocean By Jin Ding, Chaojian Shi and Adam Weintrit Paper given at the 7th International Navigational Symposium (2007) Abstract: Zheng He, a famous Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat and fleet admiral of Ming Dynasty, sailed from China to many places throughout South Pacific, […]
The Men of Bristol and the Atlantic Discovery Voyages of the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries By Annabel Peacock MA Thesis, University of Bristol, 2007 Abstract: This dissertation is concerned with the Atlantic voyages which departed from Bristol in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Very little is known about the individuals from the […]
Christopher Columbus was a royal prince, son of a Portuguese noble lady and exiled Polish King Władysław III, according to Columbus’ new biography, COLON. La Historia Nunca Contada (COLUMBUS. The Untold Story), by Manuel Rosa, just released in Spain. There have been several different theories that suggest Columbus did not come from Genoa, Italy, including that […]
The Matthew of Bristol is the vessel in which the Genoese explorer, John Cabot, sailed with his Bristol companions on their 1497 voyage of discovery to North America.
One of the most fascinating aspects of Norse society was their ability to explore and branch out from their base in Scandinavia. Norse sailors and colonists spread out across parts of Europe between the eight and eleventh centuries, going as far as Iceland, Greenland and North America. In his recent book, Vikings in America, Dr. […]
Made by the National Film Board of Canada in 1964, this short film documents John Cabot’s quest to discover a westward route across the sea to the Orient in 15th-century Europe.
L’Anse aux Meadows has been a National Historic Site since 1977. Parks Canada operates a Visitor Centre which displays artifacts discovered during the archeological excavations.
The Norse in Newfoundland: L’Anse aux Meadows and Vinland By Birgitta Wallace Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, Vol. 19:1 (2003) Introduction: One thousand years ago, the Old World and the New stood face to face in the Strait of Belle Isle. The landing of the Norse on the shores of North America was not the result of […]
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