Reviews for The discovery of the sea

The average rating for The discovery of the sea based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-07-22 00:00:00 Jeff Wend Fascinating story of how the Portuguese and Spanish worked out how all the world was connected by seas and the circumstances that led to sea going expeditions into the unknown, driven by desire to access the spice trade.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-01-08 00:00:00 Joseph Krzeminski I read small portions of this book, skimmed larger portions, and looked through the index to try and figure out if any portion of this book would be useful for the specific information I wanted out of it. But England doesn't actually show up in the index, and I am working on a project about fishing in early modern England, so basically this book provided a general world background, but virtually no immediately applicable information. One good reference I did find was that by the late 14th century prosperous Italian cities had begun overfishing their Mediterranean fishing grounds and begun importing fish from the North Atlantic and Baltic seas, which means they probably had some contact with English fishing fleets, which were beginning to expand their fishing ranges in the 15th century. However, the book doesn't specify that there was trade with English fishermen, though I know from other sources that by the 16th century English fishing in Newfoundland and elsewhere in the North Atlantic was bringing in substantial money from European trade.