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Author : Paolo Emilio Taviani
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (657 download)
Download or read book Christopher Columbus written by Paolo Emilio Taviani and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paolo Emilio Taviani
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (221 download)
Download or read book Christopher Columbus written by Paolo Emilio Taviani and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paolo Emilio Taviani
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Christopher Columbus written by Paolo Emilio Taviani and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William D. Phillips
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521446525
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)
Download or read book The Worlds of Christopher Columbus written by William D. Phillips and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Columbus was born in the mid-fifteenth century, Europe was largely isolated from the rest of the Old World - Africa and Asia - and ignorant of the existence of the world of the Western Hemisphere. The voyages of Christopher Columbus opened a period of European exploration and empire building that breached the boundaries of those isolated worlds and changed the course of human history. This book describes the life and times of Christopher Columbus on the 500th aniversary of his first voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492. Since ancient times, Europeans had dreamed of discovering new routes to the untold riches of Asia and the Far East, what set Columbus apart from these explorers was his single-minded dedication to finding official support to make that dream a reality. More than a simple description of the man, this new book places Columbus in a very broad context of European and world history. Columbus's story is not just the story of one man's rise and fall. Seen in its broader context, his life becomes a prism reflecting the broad range of human experience for the past five hundred years. Respected historians of medieval Spain and early America, the authors examine Columbus's quest for funds, first in Portugal and then in Spain, where he finally won royal backing for his scheme. Through his successful voyage in 1492 and three subsequent journeys to the new world Columbus reached the pinnacle of fame and wealth, and yet he eventually lost royal support through his own failings. William and Carla Rahn Phillips discuss the reasons for this fall and describe the empire created by the Spaniards in the lands across the ocean, even though neither they, nor anyone else in Europe, know precisely where or what those lands were. In examining the birth of a new world, this book reveals much about the times that produced these intrepid explorers.
Author : Paolo Emilio Taviani
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780856139222
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (392 download)
Download or read book Christopher Columbus the Grand Design written by Paolo Emilio Taviani and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathy Pelta
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 9780822548997
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (489 download)
Download or read book Discovering Christopher Columbus written by Kathy Pelta and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Christopher Columbus with emphasis on how historians have worked and are still working to find out the truth about his life and discoveries.
Author : Jean Fritz
Publisher : Grosset & Dunlap
ISBN 13 : 9780399221132
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (211 download)
Download or read book The Great Adventure of Christopher Columbus written by Jean Fritz and published by Grosset & Dunlap. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes Columbus's first journey to the New World and the voyage's purpose and lengthy preparations
Author : James R. McGovern
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865544147
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (441 download)
Download or read book The World of Columbus written by James R. McGovern and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six essays survey the ideas that directly and indirectly influenced Christopher Columbus, showing how he was a product of his time. The topics include the Spain of Ferdinand and Isabella, artistic discovery, science, navigation and ships, and music. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Por
Author : Washington Irving
Publisher : New York : G. & C. Carvill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
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 : Valerie Irene Jane Flint
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400887178
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus written by Valerie Irene Jane Flint and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than focusing on the well-rehearsed facts of Columbus's achievements in the New World, Valerie Flint looks instead at his imaginative mental images, the powerful "fantasies" that gave energy to his endeavors in the Renaissance. With him on his voyages into the unknown, he carried medieval notions gleaned from a Mediterranean tradition of tall tales about the sea, from books he had read, and from the mappae-mundi, splendid schematic maps with fantastic inhabitants. After investigating these sources of Columbus's views, Flint explains how the content of his thinking influenced his reports on his discoveries. Finally, she argues that problems besetting his relationship with the confessional teaching of the late medieval church provided the crucial impelling force behind his entire enterprise. As Flint follows Columbus to the New World and back, she constantly relates his reports both to modern reconstructions of what he really saw and to the visual and literary sources he knew. She argues that he declined passively to accept authoritative pronouncements, but took an active part in debate, seeking to prove and disprove theses that he knew to be controversial among his contemporaries. Flint's efforts to take Columbus seriously are so convincing that his belief that he had approached the site of the earthly Paradise seems not quaint but eminently sensible on his own terms. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Silvio A. Beding
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349125733
Total Pages : 799 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book The Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia written by Silvio A. Beding and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European discovery of the Americas in 1492 was one of the most important events of the Renaissance, and with it Christopher Columbus changed the course of world history. Now, five hundred years later, this 2-volume reference work will chart new courses in the study and understanding of Columbus and the Age of Discovery. Much more than an account of the man and his voyages, The Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia is a complete A-Z look at the world during this momentous era. In two volumes, The Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia contains more than 350 signed original articles ranging from 250 to more than 10,000 words, written by nearly 150 contributors from around the world. The work includes cross-references, bibliographies for each article, and a comprehensive index. The work is fully illustrated, with hundreds of maps, drawings and photographs.
Author : Evelina Guzuskyte
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442647469
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Christopher Columbus's Naming in the 'diarios' of the Four Voyages (1492-1504) written by Evelina Guzuskyte and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating book, Evelina Guzauskyt? uses the names Columbus gave to places in the Caribbean Basin as a way to examine the complex encounter between Europeans and the native inhabitants. Guzauskyt? challenges the common notion that Columbus's acts of naming were merely an imperial attempt to impose his will on the terrain. Instead, she argues that they were the result of the collisions between several distinct worlds, including the real and mythical geography of the Old World, Portuguese and Catalan naming traditions, and the knowledge and mapping practices of the Taino inhabitants of the Caribbean. Rather than reflecting the Spanish desire for an orderly empire, Columbus's collection of place names was fractured and fragmented - the product of the explorer's dynamic relationship with the inhabitants, nature, and geography of the Caribbean Basin. To complement Guzauskyt?'s argument, the book also features the first comprehensive list of the more than two hundred Columbian place names that are documented in his diarios and other contemporary sources.
Author : Klaus Brinkbäumer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156031585
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Voyage of the Vizcaína written by Klaus Brinkbäumer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1492 and 1504, Christopher Columbus made four attempts to find the East by heading West. In the process he lost a fair number of ships; on his last journey alone he lost no fewer than four. Although Columbus also left written documentation of where his boats had gone down, no one has been able to locate even one of the wrecks. (His reports were probably inaccurate, perhaps willfully so--he was frequently less than truthful about his adventures in the New World.) In the mid-1990s, an American expatriate living in Panama--an aging surfer dude who ran a Scuba-diving outfitting shop and diving school--a Panamanian real estate agent, and an American on vacation with his son all claimed to have been the first to locate the remains of a small ship lying in fairly shallow waters in a small gulf in Panama. No one took the discovery seriously, since it had not been made by a team of established archeologists and scientists. Finally, in 2002, the authors of this book--journalists and amateur divers--decided to investigate. They organized a team of American scientists, all of them experts in carbon dating and underwater shipwrecks, who established not only that the Panama wreck was the oldest ever found in the entire Western Hemisphere--dating from around 1500--but that it was very likely the remains of one of Columbus' last ships, the Vizcaina. To be published on the 500th anniversary of Columbus' death, THE VOYAGE OF THE VIZCAINA is a riveting account of shipwreck and adventure, giving readers the story of how the wreck was found and salvaged. Working backward, Brinkbaumer and Hoges combine archaeology and history to recreate the circumstances of the fourth journey, which began in 1502 and ended in 1504. This book is unique in its extensive use of detailed findings to frame its fascinating discoveries and conclusions about exploration in the New World, as well as about the genius and shortcomings of the man known as the Admiral, and credited with the greatest discovery of all time.
Author : David Sarfaty
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434997502
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Columbus Re-Discovered written by David Sarfaty and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Foulke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135366438
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book The Sea Voyage Narrative written by Robert Foulke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The Odyssey to Moby Dick to The Old Man and the Sea, the long tradition of sea voyage narratives is comprehensively explained here supported by discussions of key texts.
Author : Mario Di Giovanni
Publisher : Barbera Foundation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Christopher Columbus: His Life and Discoveries written by Mario Di Giovanni and published by Barbera Foundation. This book was released on with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovering a new continent, he changed the map of the earth and the course of civilization… Few men in history have changed the world as Christopher Columbus did when he sailed into the perilous and vast Atlantic Ocean. While seeking the island of Cipango and the mainland of Cathay, Columbus discovered so much more, changing the course of American history. Through extraordinary persistence and courage, Columbus discovered a new world, a continent that would ultimately change the lives of many. Despite the renowned link to his name, Columbus remains an elusive and mysterious man. Dr. Mario di Giovanni, with passionate and clear words, reveals the story of Christopher Columbus. Following his Admiral on four voyages across the Ocean Sea, di Giovanni marks the events that the recount the exploits and legacy of the best sailor in the world.
Author : Tino Balio
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520203341
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Grand Design written by Tino Balio and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advent of color, big musicals, the studio system, and the beginning of institutionalized censorship made the thirties the defining decade for Hollywood. The year 1939, celebrated as "Hollywood's greatest year," saw the release of such memorable films as Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, and Stagecoach. It was a time when the studios exercised nearly absolute control over their product as well as over such stars as Bette Davis, Clark Gable, and Humphrey Bogart. In this fifth volume of the award-winning series History of the American Cinema, Tino Balio examines every aspect of the filmmaking and film exhibition system as it matured during the Depression era.
