Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

Download or read book New Lands, New Men written by William H. Goetzmann and published by Texas State Historical Assn. This book was released on 1995 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third volume of his award-winning Exploration Trilogy, Goetzmann discusses the Second Great Age of Discovery, which spanned the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries and reflected Enlightenment ideals of science and progress. Explorers gathered information that transformed natural history and botany and launched the sciences geology and oceanography.