The Great Explorations - The Santa Maria: Model of the Ship

Man has always looked at the vastness of the open sea with curiosity and trepidation, and the desire to discover distant and unexplored lands has pushed him to perform sensational feats. This book, accompanied by a detailed model of Christopher Columbus's flagship, the carrack Santa Maria traces the fundamental stages of geographical explorations, starting with the Phoenicians in the Mediterranean Sea and continuing along the Silk Road in the footsteps of Marco Polo, up to discovery of new and mysterious continents with Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan and James Cook