Admiral of the Ocean Sea
Author | : Samuel Eliot Morison |
Publisher | : Acls History E-Book Project |
Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 2008-11 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9781597406192 |
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Author | : Samuel Eliot Morison |
Publisher | : Acls History E-Book Project |
Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 2008-11 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9781597406192 |
Author | : Samuel Eliot Morison |
Publisher | : M J F Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : 9781567311433 |
Telling the story of the greatest sailor of them all, "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" is a vivid and definitive biography of Columbus that details all of his voyages that, for better or worse, changed the world. 50 drawings, maps & charts; 4 fold-outs.
Author | : Samuel Eliot Morison |
Publisher | : Little Brown |
Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 1942 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780316583541 |
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Christopher Columbus retraces his expedition to create a vivid recreation of his life and career
Author | : Samuel Eliot Morison |
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Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1962 |
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ISBN | : 9780812456912 |
Author | : Mary Pope Osborne |
Publisher | : Gareth Stevens Publishing |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780836814828 |
Traces the life of the Italian sailor who is most remembered for his voyages to the New World on behalf of Spain.
Author | : James Haskins |
Publisher | : New York : Scholastic |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780590423960 |
Recounts the life and adventures of the man who was the first in recorded history to sail west across the ocean from Spain, and discovered lands previously unknown to Europeans.
Author | : Samuel Eliot Morison |
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Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : America |
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Release | : 1942 |
Genre | : America |
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Author | : Edward Wilson-Lee |
Publisher | : Scribner |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2020-03-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1982111402 |
This impeccably researched and “adventure-packed” (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus’s son to create the greatest library in the world is “the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters” (NPR) and offers a vivid picture of Europe on the verge of becoming modern. At the peak of the Age of Exploration, Hernando Colón sailed with his father Christopher Columbus on his final voyage to the New World, a journey that ended in disaster, bloody mutiny, and shipwreck. After Columbus’s death in 1506, eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continue—and surpass—his father’s campaign to explore the boundaries of the known world by building a library that would collect everything ever printed: a vast holding organized by summaries and catalogues; really, the first ever database for the exploding diversity of written matter as the printing press proliferated across Europe. Hernando traveled extensively and obsessively amassed his collection based on the groundbreaking conviction that a library of universal knowledge should include “all books, in all languages and on all subjects,” even material often dismissed: ballads, erotica, news pamphlets, almanacs, popular images, romances, fables. The loss of part of his collection to another maritime disaster in 1522, set off the final scramble to complete this sublime project, a race against time to realize a vision of near-impossible perfection. “Magnificent…a thrill on almost every page” (The New York Times Book Review), The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books is a window into sixteenth-century Europe’s information revolution, and a reflection of the passion and intrigues that lie beneath our own insatiable desires to bring order to the world today.