Geschichte des Zeitalters der Entdeckungen

The work offers a systematic survey of early modern exploration, moving from medieval routes and eyewitness accounts to the major sea highways that opened contact between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. It details voyages that traced eastern passages around Africa, western crossings to the New World, the first circumnavigation, and campaigns of conquest in Central and South America, while also examining attempts to find northern routes. Chapters interweave expedition narratives, navigational and cartographic evidence, and commentary on motives, trading networks, and the maps and illustrations that document discovery.