| Description |
xii, 316 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Iberian Maritime States -- 2. Ships of Exploration and Discovery -- 3. Budding the Ship -- 4. Rigging the Ship -- 5. Outfitting the Ship -- 6. Manning and Provisioning the Ship -- 7. Arming the Ship -- 8. Literature Review -- 9. Conclusion -- Appendix A: Nautical Terms -- Appendix B: Spanish Nautical Terms -- Appendix C: Portuguese Nautical Terms -- Appendix D: Inventories of Nina and Santa Cruz / Denise C. Lakey |
| Summary |
This book presents a portrait of the small vessels invented and refined in the shipyards of Spain and Portugal half a millennium ago. The author focuses on the advances in maritime technology that made the European conquest of the New World possible. Shipwrights worked by trial and error to make ships that would travel faster and farther, carrying larger and larger cargoes. Pilots developed new methods of celestial navigation and learned the patterns of wind and sea currents. Long voyages taxed the physical and emotional well-being of the crew, requiring new methods of supply and sustenance. The author also explains how ships were built, outfitted, and manned, illustrating what life at sea was like in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries |
| Analysis |
Portugal |
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Sailing ships History |
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Spain |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-291) and indexes |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Discoveries in geography -- History.
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Discoveries in geography.
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Ships -- Portugal -- History.
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Ships -- Spain -- History.
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| LC no. |
91040929 |
| ISBN |
0195073576 (acid-free paper) |
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