David Beers Quinn was an Irish historian who wrote extensively on the voyages of discovery and colonisation of America. Many of his publications appeared as vol

First published in 1974, England and the Discovery of America places the early explorations of the English in North America in the broad context of 15th and 16t

Between the year 1000 and the mid-14th century, several remarkable events unfolded as Europeans made contact with a very substantial part of the inhabited world