New Lands, New Men: America and the Second Great Age of Discovery
- ISBN-10
- 0670810681
- ISBN-13
- 9780670810680
- Pages
- 528
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1986
- Publisher
- Viking
- Author
- William H. Goetzmann
Description
In the third volume of his award-winning Exploration Trilogy, Goetzmann discusses the Second Great Age of Discovery, which spanned the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries and reflected Enlightenment ideals of science and progress. Explorers gathered information that transformed natural history and botany and launched the sciences geology and oceanography.
