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Author: Samuel Eliot Morison Publisher: ISBN: Category : America Languages : en Pages : 296
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Informal historical travelogue of the West Indies area by Cessna airplane, following in the wake of the explorer's four voyages westward.
Author: Stephen Krensky Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers ISBN: 0385374720 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 41
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Independent readers can learn about Columbus's fateful voyage in this dramatic, easy-to-read account of a pivotal moment in American history.
Author: Kenneth Nebenzahl Publisher: Chicago : Rand McNally ISBN: 9780528834073 Category : America Languages : en Pages : 168
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Depicts fifteenth- and sixteenth-century maps and describes how the way the world was portrayed changed as mapmakers incorporated information on the Americas into their work
Author: Christopher Columbus Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141920424 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 458
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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: Edward Wilson-Lee Publisher: Scribner ISBN: 1982111402 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 416
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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.
Author: Hans Koning Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 1583673822 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 142
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"The book is an idea that has finally found its time." --Publisher's Weekly "I think your book on Christopher Columbus is important. I'm more grateful for that book than any other book I have read in a couple of years." --Kurt Vonnegut
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Census and Population Publisher: ISBN: Category : Columbus Quincentenary, 1992-1993 Languages : en Pages : 100
Author: Bill Bigelow
Author: Bill Bigelow
Author: Samuel Eliot Morison
Author: Stephen Krensky
Author: Kenneth Nebenzahl
Author: Christopher Columbus
Author: Edward Wilson-Lee
Author: Charles C. Mann
Author: Hans Koning
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Census and Population
Author: Kirkpatrick Sale