Venetian Navigators - the Voyages of the Zen brothers to the far north
by Ribukabtm Abdrea di
pub. Faber and Faber, London - 2011/, isbn 978-0-571-24377-8 - - few black and white portraits and reproductions of ancient maps - - 244 p.
There are 9 chapters
Prologue
Introductory information
1 - Making a Book
The author
2 - Messer Nicolo
The focus of our study, Nicolo Zen
3 - Frislanda
Lost in a storm in the North Sea - and found
4 - Zichmni
Who is Zichmni? Is he Henry Sinclair of Scotland and also the Shetlands ?
5 - Islanda
Iceland visit - Nothing directly found but some descriptions verified. (Monastaries)
6 - Estotiland, Drogio and Icaria
The Fishermans Tale Contact with natives etc.
7 - Engroneland
Visit to Greenland and a trip north along the west coast to burning rock.
8 - Squaring the Circle
Zen the younger, map makers and maps. Effects on later events John Dee and England legally colonizing the New World.
9 - Venetian Puzzle
Christian Zahrtmann (Danish) attack on the Zen stories and later vindication.
Postscript
After this book is largely written
Acknowledgements
Many of those who were of assistance.
Notes
Some notes on sources by chapter.
Selected Bibliography
pages 235-244. Sources grouped by subject.
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The author is Mr. Andrea di Robilant. He was doing some research in the archives in Venice when he was asked by an American tourist about a navigator named Zen who sailed to the North Sea and farther north between 1000 and 1400 AD. The tourist went on, but de Robilant became ingregued and chased down the Zen family and all the records of their family for several generatons. On the whole the Zen family was na ancient one, well respected (most of the time) and were successful traders.
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