Henry the Navigator, fifteenth-century Portuguese prince and explorer, is a legendary, almost mythical figure in late medieval history. Considered along with Columbus to be one of the progenitors of modernity, Prince Henry challenged the scientific assumptions of his age and was responsible for liberating Europeans from geographical restraints that had bound them since the Roman Empire's collapse. In this enthralling account of Henry's life--the first biography of "The Navigator" in more than a century--Peter Russell reaps the harvest of a lifelong study of Prince Henry. Making full use of...
Henry the Navigator, fifteenth-century Portuguese prince and explorer, is a legendary, almost mythical figure in late medieval history. Considered alo...
Reissues with much uncollected material a famous modernist jeu d'esprit which gave the author his true poetic voice - dyspeptic, witty, coruscating and chilled by sudden apprehensions of mortality.
Reissues with much uncollected material a famous modernist jeu d'esprit which gave the author his true poetic voice - dyspeptic, witty, coruscating an...
