The Four Voyages

Author : Laurence Bergreen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014312210X
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Columbus written by Laurence Bergreen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141920424
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus written by Christopher Columbus and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-02-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 : 9781410441157
Total Pages : 773 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Columbus written by Laurence Bergreen and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 773 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Viking Adult, 2011.

Author : Christopher Columbus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Four Voyages of Columbus written by Christopher Columbus and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Columbus
Publisher : Martino Fine Books
ISBN 13 : 9781891396915
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Log of Christopher Columbus' First Voyage to America in the Year 1492 written by Christopher Columbus and published by Martino Fine Books. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Select Letters of Christopher Columbus written by Christopher Columbus and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Laurence Bergreen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014312210X
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Columbus written by Laurence Bergreen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Amerigo Vespucci
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and Other Documents Illustrating His Career written by Amerigo Vespucci and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Benjamin Morrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Narrative of Four Voyages written by Benjamin Morrell and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Columbus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letter of Christopher Columbus to Rafael Sanchez written by Christopher Columbus and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: