In this second volume of his four-part work Churchill sails forth into broader waters... The New World of the American continent was discovered and settled by European adventure. In the realms of speculation and belief, poetry and art, other new worlds were opened to the human spirit. Between 1485 and 1688 the English people began to spread out over all the globe. The king who died at Bosworth had no conception of the endless vistas stretching ahead to the generation which, in 1688, saw their king slip down the Thames into exile...