The Voyages Of Christopher Columbus

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 : 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:

Author : Washington Irving
Publisher : New York : G. & C. Carvill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus written by Washington Irving and published by New York : G. & C. Carvill. This book was released on 1828 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steven Otfinoski
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
ISBN 13 : 1450907679
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Voyages of Christopher Columbus written by Steven Otfinoski and published by Benchmark Education Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Washington Irving
Publisher : London : J. Murray
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The life and voyages of Christopher Columbus; together with the voyages of his companions written by Washington Irving and published by London : J. Murray. This book was released on 1849 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Columbus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America written by Christopher Columbus and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 488 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.

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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806123844
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America, 1492-1493 written by and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Washington Irving
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Columbus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108012841
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of Christopher Columbus (During His First Voyage, 1492-93) written by Christopher Columbus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains an account of Columbus' first voyage, and those of his contemporaries John Cabot and Gaspar Corte Real.