The Four Voyages Of Columbus

Author : Laurence Bergreen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101544327

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Columbus by Laurence Bergreen Pdf

From the author of the Magellan biography, Over the Edge of the World, a mesmerizing new account of the great explorer. Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history. Yet Columbus made three more voyages within the span of only a decade, each designed to demonstrate that he could sail to China within a matter of weeks and convert those he found there to Christianity. These later voyages were even more adventurous, violent, and ambiguous, but they revealed Columbus's uncanny sense of the sea, his mingled brilliance and delusion, and his superb navigational skills. In all these exploits he almost never lost a sailor. By their conclusion, however, Columbus was broken in body and spirit. If the first voyage illustrates the rewards of exploration, the latter voyages illustrate the tragic costs- political, moral, and economic. In rich detail Laurence Bergreen re-creates each of these adventures as well as the historical background of Columbus's celebrated, controversial career. Written from the participants' vivid perspectives, this breathtakingly dramatic account will be embraced by readers of Bergreen's previous biographies of Marco Polo and Magellan and by fans of Nathaniel Philbrick, Simon Winchester, and Tony Horwitz.

Author : Christopher Columbus
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-02-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141920429

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The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Christopher Columbus Pdf

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 : Christopher Columbus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172110075815

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The Four Voyages of Columbus by Christopher Columbus Pdf

Author : Laurence Bergreen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 773 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1410441156

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Columbus by Laurence Bergreen Pdf

Originally published: New York: Viking Adult, 2011.

Author : Christopher Columbus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : America
ISBN : UOM:39015066479745

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Select Letters of Christopher Columbus by Christopher Columbus Pdf

Author : Christopher Columbus,Bartolome De Las Casas
Publisher : Martino Fine Books
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1891396919

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The Log of Christopher Columbus' First Voyage to America in the Year 1492 by Christopher Columbus,Bartolome De Las Casas Pdf

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 : Christopher Columbus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : America
ISBN : PSU:000012952243

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Letter of Christopher Columbus to Rafael Sanchez by Christopher Columbus Pdf

Author : Christopher Columbus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9681162617

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Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Christopher Columbus Pdf

Author : Carol Delaney
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439102329

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Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem by Carol Delaney Pdf

FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AFTER HE SET SAIL, the dominant understanding of Christopher Columbus holds him responsible for almost everything that went wrong in the New World. Here, finally, is a book that will radically change our interpretation of the man and his mission. Scholar Carol Delaney claims that the true motivation for Columbus’s voyages is very different from what is commonly accepted. She argues that he was inspired to find a western route to the Orient not only to obtain vast sums of gold for the Spanish Crown but primarily to help fund a new crusade to take Jerusalem from the Muslims—a goal that sustained him until the day he died. Rather than an avaricious glory hunter, Delaney reveals Columbus as a man of deep passion, patience, and religious conviction. Delaney sets the stage by describing the tumultuous events that had beset Europe in the years leading up to Columbus’s birth—the failure of multiple crusades to keep Jerusalem in Christian hands; the devastation of the Black Plague; and the schisms in the Church. Then, just two years after his birth, the sacking of Constantinople by the Ottomans barred Christians from the trade route to the East and the pilgrimage route to Jerusalem. Columbus’s belief that he was destined to play a decisive role in the retaking of Jerusalem was the force that drove him to petition the Spanish monarchy to fund his journey, even in the face of ridicule about his idea of sailing west to reach the East. Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem is based on extensive archival research, trips to Spain and Italy to visit important sites in Columbus’s life story, and a close reading of writings from his day. It recounts the drama of the four voyages, bringing the trials of ocean navigation vividly to life and showing Columbus for the master navigator that he was. Delaney offers not an apologist’s take, but a clear-eyed, thought-provoking, and timely reappraisal of the man and his legacy. She depicts him as a thoughtful interpreter of the native cultures that he and his men encountered, and unfolds the tragic story of how his initial attempts to establish good relations with the natives turned badly sour, culminating in his being brought back to Spain as a prisoner in chains. Putting Columbus back into the context of his times, rather than viewing him through the prism of present-day perspectives on colonial conquests, Delaney shows him to have been neither a greedy imperialist nor a quixotic adventurer, as he has lately been depicted, but a man driven by an abiding religious passion.

Author : Christopher Columbus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : America
ISBN : UCSD:31822035194430

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Christopher Columbus by Christopher Columbus Pdf

Author : Steven Otfinoski
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : America
ISBN : 9781450907675

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The Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Steven Otfinoski Pdf

Four times Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic Ocean. Along the way, he lived through storms and shipwrecks. He visited many islands and met native peoples. He started colonies for Spain. Once he was sent home in chains. Columbus always believed he had reached the East, or Asia. One of the most famous explorers of all times never knew where he had been!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806123842

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The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America, 1492-1493 by Anonim Pdf

This definitive edition of Columbus's account of the voyage presents the most accurate printed version of his journal available to date. Unfortunately both Columbus's original manuscript, presented to Ferdinand and Isabella along with other evidence of his discoveries, and a single complete copy have been lost for centuries. The primary surviving record of the voyage-part quotation, part summary of the complete copy-is a transcription made by Bartolome de las Casas in the 1530s. This new edition of the Las Casas manuscript presents its entire contents-including notes, insertions, and canceled text-more accurately, completely, and graphically than any other Spanish text published so far. In addition, the new translation, which strives for readability and accuracy, appears on pages facing the Spanish, encouraging on-the- spot comparisons of the translation with the original. Study of the work is further facilitated by extensive notes, documenting differences between the editors' transcription and translation and those of other transcribers and translators and summarizing current research and debates on unanswered current research and debates on unanswered questions concerning the voyage. In addition to being the only edition in which Spanish and English are presented side by side, this edition includes the only concordance ever prepared for the Diario. Awaited by scholars, this new edition will help reduce the guesswork that has long plagued the study of Columbus's voyage. It may shed light on a number of issues related to Columbus's navigational methods and the identity of his landing places, issues whose resolution depend, at least in part, on an accurate transcription of the Diario. Containing day-by-day accounts of the voyage and the first sighting of land, of the first encounters with the native populations and the first appraisals of his islands explored, and of a suspenseful return voyage to Spain, the Diario provides a fascinating and useful account to historians, geographers, anthropologists, sailors, students, and anyone else interested in the discovery-or in a very good sea story. Oliver Dunn received the PH.D. degree from Cornell University. He is Professor Emeritus in Purdue University and a longtime student of Spanish and early history of Spanish America. James E. Kelley, Jr., received the M.A. degree from American University. A mathematician and computer and management consultant by vocation, for the past twenty years he has studied the history of European cartography and navigation in late-medieval times. Both are members of the Society for the History of Discoveries and have written extensively on the history of navigation and on Columbus's first voyage, Although they remain unconvinced of its conclusions, both were consultants to the National geographic Society's 1986 effort to establish Samana Cay as the site of Columbus's first landing.

Author : Christopher Columbus
Publisher : New York : Corinth Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018329587

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Four Voyages to the New World by Christopher Columbus Pdf

First published in 1847 under title: Select letters of Christopher Columbus. The letters are in the original Spanish and in English translation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : America
ISBN : OCLC:1011723976

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The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Anonim Pdf

J.M. Cohen ha skilfully woven together Columbus's log-books and letters, the biography by his son Hernando, the official history by Oviedo, and the letters of the fleet physician and a loyal lieutenant, and the result is a unique contemporary record of a great adventure as it unfolds.

Author : Christopher Columbus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : America
ISBN : HARVARD:32044011557550

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Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America by Christopher Columbus Pdf