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Author | : Christopher Columbus |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2004-02-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0141920424 |
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No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall of Columbus's ship the Santa Maria in the Americas in 1492 - an event that paved the way for the conquest of a 'New World'. The accounts collected here provide a vivid narrative of his voyages throughout the Caribbean and finally to the mainland of Central America, although he still believed he had reached Asia. Columbus himself is revealed as a fascinating and contradictory figure, fluctuating from awed enthusiasm to paranoia and eccentric geographical speculation. Prey to petty quarrels with his officers, his pious desire to bring Christian civilization to 'savages' matched by his rapacity for gold, Columbus was nonetheless an explorer and seaman of staggering vision and achievement.
Author | : Laurence Bergreen |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 2012-09-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 014312210X |
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He knew nothing of celestial navigation or of the existence of the Pacific Ocean. He was a self-promoting and ambitious entrepreneur. His maps were a hybrid of fantasy and delusion. When he did make land, he enslaved the populace he found, encouraged genocide, and polluted relations between peoples. He ended his career in near lunacy. But Columbus had one asset that made all the difference, an inborn sense of the sea, of wind and weather, and of selecting the optimal course to get from A to B. Laurence Bergreen's energetic and bracing book gives the whole Columbus and most importantly, the whole of his career, not just the highlight of 1492. Columbus undertook three more voyages between 1494 and 1504, each designed to demonstrate that he could sail to China within a matter of weeks and convert those he found there to Christianity. By their conclusion, Columbus was broken in body and spirit, a hero undone by the tragic flaw of pride. If the first voyage illustrates the rewards of exploration, this book shows how the subsequent voyages illustrate the costs - political, moral, and economic.
Author | : Christopher Columbus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1847 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Christopher Columbus |
Publisher | : New York : Corinth Books |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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First published in 1847 under title: Select letters of Christopher Columbus. The letters are in the original Spanish and in English translation.
Author | : Christopher Columbus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : America |
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Author | : Laurence Bergreen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 773 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781410441157 |
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Originally published: New York: Viking Adult, 2011.
Author | : Christopher Columbus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1847 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Christopher Columbus |
Publisher | : Martino Fine Books |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2011-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781891396915 |
Download The Log of Christopher Columbus' First Voyage to America in the Year 1492 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
2011 Reprint of the 1920 Edition. Illustrated by Cosgrove. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This is the actual log of Christopher Columbus as copied out by his companion, Bartholomew Las Casas. Besides being authentic source material about the voyage and the core of the Columbus legend, this journal has all the day-by-day enchantment of a long sea voyage with all the drama of a small ship steering into the unknown-the first pelican, a crab in the seaweed, a branch of roseberries and a carved log found floating in the water, mutterings of mutiny and the constant watch for signs of land. John Cosgrove, the illustrator, adds to the book on every page with pictures of whales and riggings, compasses and charts, which are both decorative and accurate pictorial footnotes to the log.
Author | : R.H. Major |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2017-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 131705766X |
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A revised translation of the documents in First Series 2, with the editor's reply to J. A. Froude's strictures on the earlier edition in the Westminster Review (1852) and in his Short Studies on Great Subjects, vol. 2. Contains the following: Introduction.--Dati, G. La lettera dellisole che ha trovato nuovamente il re dispagna. [At end] a di XXVI. doctobre. 14.93. Florentie.--Bibliography [of the Incunabula of Columbus' first letter]--First voyage: A letter sent by Columbus to Luis de Santangel chancellor of the exchequer. [Ambrosian text]--Second voyage: A letter addressed to the Chapter of Seville by Dr. Chanca.--Memorial of the results of the second voyage. 30th of January 1494.--Third voyage: Narrative of the voyage which Don Christopher Columbus made ... as he sent it to their Majesties.--Letter ... to the (quondam) nurse of the prince John, 1500.--Letter ... to the most Christian and mighty sovereigns. Jamaica, July 7, 1503.--A narrative given by Diego Mendez. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1870.
Author | : Christopher Columbus |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2004-04-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1592446485 |
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Christopher Columbus returned to Europe in the final days of 1500, ending his third voyage to the Indies not in triumph but in chains. Seeking to justify his actions and protect his rights, he began to compile biblical texts and excerpts from patristic writings and medieval theology in a manuscript known as the Book of Prophecies. This unprecedented collection was designed to support his vision of the discovery of the Indies as an important event in the process of human salvation - a first step toward the liberation of Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim domination. This work is part of a twelve-volume series produced by U.C.L.A.'s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies which involved the collaboration of some forty scholars over the course of fourteen years. In this volume of the series, Roberto Rusconi has written a complete historical introduction to the Book of Prophecies, describing the manuscript's history and analyzing its principal themes. His edition of the documents, the only modern one, includes a complete critical apparatus and detailed commentary, while the facing-page English translations allow Columbus's work to be appreciated by the general public and scholars alike.