James Williamson (historian)

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James A. Williamson was a prominent historian and expert on the John Cabot voyages. He also wrote many other books on explorers, exploration and discovery.

James Williamson wrote of James Cook:

the greatest explorer of his age and the greatest maritime explorer of his country in any age.

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  • The Voyages of the Cabots and the English Discovery of North America, James A. Williamson, 1929, reprinted 1971.
  • The Cabot Voyages and Bristol Discovery Under Henry VII, James A. Williamson, 1962.
  • The Evolution of England : A Commentary on the Facts, James A. Williamson, Oxford University Press, 1931 ISBN 0-19-821268-2.
  • The Age of Drake, James A. Williamson, Adam & Charles Black, 1938
  • The Ocean in English History: Being the Ford Lectures, James A. Williamson, Clarendon Press, 1948.
  • Cook and the Opening of the Pacific, James A. Williamson, 1946