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Author : Christopher Columbus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : America
ISBN : PSU:000012952243
Author : Jennifer Krueger
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761372356
In the late 1400s, Christopher Columbus was sure he could find a trade route from Spain to the Far East by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean. On his first voyage, he landed on an island in the Caribbean Sea. He soon realizedn that this was not Asia and returned to Spain for more supplies. Even after three more attempts, Columbus never found a westward route to Asia. But his discoveries forever changed European views of the world and led to settlement in the Americas. So why did Columbus want a route to the Far East? How did he get his idea to sail west? What challenges did he and his crew face? Discover the facts about Columbus's voyages and how they changed the world.
Author : Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1993-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780679743378
When Columbus landed in 1492, the New World was far from being a vast expanse of empty wilderness: it was home to some seventy-five million people. They ranged from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego, spoke as many as two thousand different languages, and lived in groups that varied from small bands of hunter-gatherers to the sophisticated and dazzling empires of the Incas and Aztecs. This brilliantly detailed and documented volume brings together essays by fifteen leading scholars field to present a comprehensive and richly evocative portrait of Native American life on the eve of Columbus's first landfall. Developed at the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian and edited by award-winning author Alvin M. Josehpy, Jr., America in 1492 is an invaluable work that combines the insights of historians, anthropologists, and students of art, religion, and folklore. Its dozens of illustrations, drawn from largely from the rare books and manuscripts housed at the Newberry Library, open a window on worlds flourished in the Americas five hundred years ago.
Author : The National Maritime Museum,Gareth Moore
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781529322828
__________ Available now: the biggest and best quiz book about the deep blue! __________ Think you know the difference between a ship and a boat? Do you really understand the shipping forecast? And what do all the different flags at sea mean? The Nautical Puzzle Book is packed to the brim with over 100 puzzles inspired by the National Maritime Museum's objects and their stories. Inside this book you'll find a fiendish mix of word games, codewords, trivia, picture puzzles, word scrambles, anagrams, crosswords and much more. It's a chance to learn all about epic explorers, history makers, record breakers, myths, legends, seafaring traditions and life at sea. By the time you reach the end you'll have navigated centuries of history, crossed thousands of miles of ocean, and made countless discoveries - so batten down the hatches and set sail! __________ The perfect gift for veteran seafarers and armchair navigators alike. Find out if you're worthy of captaincy or destined to be a deck hand in this beautiful and addictive puzzle book! If you're bored of Zoom Quizzes, then this is the book for all the family.
Author : Charles C. Mann
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307265722
More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's voyages brought them back together--and marked the beginning of an extraordinary exchange of flora and fauna between Eurasia and the Americas.
Author : Clint Twist
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0811472531
Introduces the background, voyages, discoveries, and historical significance of Christopher Columbus.
Author : Charles C. Mann,Rebecca Stefoff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781416949008
A companion book for young readers based upon the explorations of the Americas in 1491, before those of Christopher Columbus.
Author : Christopher Columbus
Publisher : New York : Corinth Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018329587
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 : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : America
ISBN : HARVARD:32044011557550
Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806123842
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 Brink
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502635259
Few people in history have had as significant an impact on the shaping of multiple cultures as Christopher Columbus, the explorer who sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492 in search of a sea route from Europe to Asia. He has been widely admired throughout history for his persistence, courage, charisma, and impressive nautical and navigational skills, particularly considering his lack of formal education. However, he has been the target of significant criticism due to his perceived cruelty toward the native inhabitants of the islands he discovered, his ineptitude at governing the colony he founded, and his tendency toward dishonesty and manipulation of others when it suited his purposes. This book seeks to provide the reader with a balanced perspective of Columbus's personality, achievements, and far-reaching effects on cultures on both sides of the Atlantic.
Author : Elise Bartosik-Velez
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826503480
Why is the capital of the United States named in part after Christopher Columbus, a Genoese explorer commissioned by Spain who never set foot on what would become the nation's mainland? Why did Spanish American nationalists in 1819 name a new independent republic "Colombia," after Columbus, the first representative of the empire from which they had recently broken free? These are only two of the introductory questions explored in The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas, a fundamental recasting of Columbus as an eminently powerful tool in imperial constructs. Bartosik-Velez seeks to explain the meaning of Christopher Columbus throughout the so-called New World, first in the British American colonies and the United States, as well as in Spanish America, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She argues that during the pre- and post-revolutionary periods, New World societies commonly imagined themselves as legitimate and powerful independent political entities by comparing themselves to the classical empires of Greece and Rome. Columbus, who had been construed as a figure of empire for centuries, fit perfectly into that framework. By adopting him as a national symbol, New World nationalists appeal to Old World notions of empire.
Author : Facts On File, Incorporated
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : America
ISBN : 9781438129464
In 1492, Christopher Columbus led an expedition sponsored by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain to find the passage to the west to the riches of India.
Author : Bill Bigelow,Bob Peterson
Publisher : Rethinking Schools
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780942961201
Provides resources for teaching elementary and secondary school students about Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America.
Author : William Least Heat-Moon
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118039663
A stirring tale of adventure and tragedy "They brought balls of spun cotton and parrots and javelins and other little things that it would be tiresome to write down, and they gave everything for anything that was given to them. I was attentive and labored to find out if there was any gold." With these portentous words, Christopher Columbus described one of his first encounters with Native Americans on the island of Guanahani, which he had named San Salvador and claimed for Spain the day before. In Columbus in the Americas, bestselling author William Least Heat-Moon reveals that Columbus's subsequent dealings with the cultures he encountered not only did considerable immediate harm, but also set the pattern of behavior for those who followed him. Based on the logbook of Columbus and numerous other firsthand accounts of his four voyages to the New World, this vividly detailed history also examines the strengths and weaknesses of Columbus as a navigator, explorer, and leader. It recounts dramatic events such as the destruction of Fortress Navidad, the very first European settlement in the New World; a pitched battle in northern Panama with the native Guaymi people; and an agonizing year Columbus and his men spent marooned on a narrow spit of land in southern Jamaica. Filled with stories of triumph and tragedy, courage and villainy, Columbus in the Americas offers a balanced yet unflinching portrait of the most famous and controversial explorer in history.
