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Coles A Story of Madeira (Classic Reprint) at Village Green Shopping Centre in Vernon, BC
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Excerpt from A Story of Madeira Until then the rich products of the Orient were carried overland to Venice, the distributing point of all Europe. It was the great hope Of Prince Henry, the Navigator, to discover a southern water-route to India, which, by one bold, brilliant stroke, would add to the glory of Portugal, deprive the Venetians of their commercial prestige, and turn the current of trade toward Lisbon, where his father loved to dwell and watch the white sails pass to and fro along the Ta gus. All the adventurous spirits of the kingdom gathered around Prince Henry, and while he never commanded the ex peditions in person, he was universally acknowledged to be the guiding genius of them all. This was but the beginning of that marvelous expansion of power which has given Portugal a story among the nations of earth - a story as eventful, as pictur esque, as glorious as even her prouder Castilian neighbor can tell. And when it is remembered that these sea-faring men put out on unknown seas in such crazy crafts' as a sailor of to-day would hardly trust outside of the land's sight, and that there was at that time none of the modern knowledge of the tides and winds, their successful ventures seem all the more wonderful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from A Story of Madeira Until then the rich products of the Orient were carried overland to Venice, the distributing point of all Europe. It was the great hope Of Prince Henry, the Navigator, to discover a southern water-route to India, which, by one bold, brilliant stroke, would add to the glory of Portugal, deprive the Venetians of their commercial prestige, and turn the current of trade toward Lisbon, where his father loved to dwell and watch the white sails pass to and fro along the Ta gus. All the adventurous spirits of the kingdom gathered around Prince Henry, and while he never commanded the ex peditions in person, he was universally acknowledged to be the guiding genius of them all. This was but the beginning of that marvelous expansion of power which has given Portugal a story among the nations of earth - a story as eventful, as pictur esque, as glorious as even her prouder Castilian neighbor can tell. And when it is remembered that these sea-faring men put out on unknown seas in such crazy crafts' as a sailor of to-day would hardly trust outside of the land's sight, and that there was at that time none of the modern knowledge of the tides and winds, their successful ventures seem all the more wonderful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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