Second edition.
A work suited for academics and laymen alike that gathers together the most important contributions of Spanish explorers and travelers to the geographic and scientific understanding of the world from antiquity to the present day, across oceans, forests, mountain ranges, and deserts.
Major specialists tell the biographies of more than two hundred people who left Spain to discover new territories, cross the continents, and open new paths of communication among peoples.
This illustrated explains the moving history of Spanish explorers and their principal contributions to geography and science.