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Atlantic Islands

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.

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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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