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Atlantic Islands

Name: Atlantic Islands
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ISBN: 9780226170015

Madeira, the Azores, and the Cape Verdes in Seventeenth-Century Commerce and Navigation

by T. Bentley Duncan · 1972 edition

A classic scholarly study of the Portuguese Atlantic islands’ role in 17th-century commerce and maritime navigation — a foundational academic reference for Madeira and wider Macaronesia.

MacaronesiaAtlantic historyAzoresCape VerdePortuguese empirescholarly

Author: T. Bentley Duncan
Edition year: 1972
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
ISBN-13: 9780226170015

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