Prince Henry "the Navigator" : a life / Peter Russell

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Contents: Matters of Nativity -- The Force of Destiny: Ceuta -- The Crusader as Administrator: King's Lieutenant for Ceuta and Governor of the Order of Christ -- Lord of the Isles -- Beyond the Cape of No Return -- A Just War? Henry's Ambitions in the Sultanate of Morocco -- Debacle at Tangier -- Discovery Resumed: The Portuguese Sahara -- The Caravels of Christ -- Prince Henry and the Atlantic Slave Trade -- A Henrican Obsession: The Canary Islands -- Cadamosto: A New World Observed -- Once More Unto the Breach: Alcacer-Ceguer -- From Senegambia to the Lion Mountain: The Henrican Discoveries Concluded -- The Necessary End -- Translation of a Private Letter from Prince Henry to his Father (1428)
Summary: "This is not a biography in the traditional sense. Too few of Henry's writings survive to provide the kind of material necessary to describe in detail the emotional or daily life of the man. It is rather a history of Henry's actions, of the world in which they took place and the impact that they had upon the Europe of his time."--BOOK JACKET.

2000

C2000

Physical description: xvi, 448 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 25 cm

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