E-raamat: In Search of Trade and Fortune: John Cabot, Christopher Columbus and the Opening of the Atlantic

"This is a beautifully written and illustrated account of the discovery and re-discovery of America in the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century. Lydia Towns incorporates much recent published research whilst being unafraid to offer clear and original analysis. Her core focus is not only the stories of the voyages of Columbus and the two Cabots, John and Sebastian, but the motivations for the journeys as much merchant enterprises as means of imperial endeavour. In Search of Trade and Fortune is, for sheer originality of thought and sound scholarship, a book I shall wish to keep at hand." - Margaret Condon, Cabot Project, University of Bristol "In a fascinating book that cleverly intertwines the careers of Christopher Columbus and John Cabot, Lydia Towns sets their voyages within contemporary knowledge of the Atlantic, which was fuller than is generally assumed, and shows that English merchants, and then John Cabot, played a much under-estimated role in the discovery of America." - David Abulafia, Professor Emeritus of Mediterranean History, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College "This work is a vital and compelling look at the interconnected systems of the early Atlantic World. Brilliantly re-contextualizing familiar explorers within the crucial economic and historical networks that made their journeys possible, this book is a masterful examination of how the Old World truly expanded into the New." - Mylynka Kilgore Cardona, Associate Professor of History, East Texas A&M University