Books Tell You Why, Inc.

A sprightly first edition/first printing in Fine condition with some light page edge soiling in a Fine dust-jacket.

New Lands, New Men is an account of the Second Great Age of Discovery, which began in the fifteenth century and lasted until the seventeenth century. The Age of Discovery saw Europeans explore and colonize all of the Americas, East and West Africa, Australia, and much of the Pacific Ocean. Goetzmann examines the causes and consequences of this age of exploration, and he provides a vivid portrait of the people and cultures that were swept up into the expanding European world.; 8vo ; 528 pages; TBC.