The Discovery of America - Vol. II Essays including the decline after the

including the decline after the Golden Age

and a touch of the supernatural

Mit seinem einzigartigen erzählerischen Stil verbindet Gerstäcker persönliche Erlebnisse mit fesselnden Geschichten

Loti's vivid descriptions offer readers a glimpse into late 19th-century Japan through Western eyes

the book offers a glimpse into Preston’s travels

The Discovery of America - Vol. II Essays including the decline after the"The Discovery of America" forms a mental picture of that strange world of savagery and barbarism to which civilized Europeans were for the first time introduced in the course of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, in their voyages along the African coast, into the Indian and Pacific oceans, and across the Atlantic. Nothing that Europeans discovered during that stirring period was so remarkable as these antique phases of human society, the mere