This volume offers the first fully-focused study on the language and discourse employed in historical accounts of discovery, exploration and settlement, stretch

The Age of Reconnaissance, as J. H. Parry so aptly named it, was the period in which Europe discovered the rest of the world. It began with Henry the Navigator

The Age of Discovery began in the early part of the 15th century and carried on through most of the 17th century. It is sometimes also referred to as the Age of

Details the activities of the Europeans who discovered, explored, and attempted to settle North America.

Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior librarie