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Author : Christopher Columbus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Letter of Columbus on the Discovery of America written by Christopher Columbus and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Columbus
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141920424
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
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 : Meyer Kayserling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Christopher Columbus and the Participation of the Jews in the Spanish and Portuguese Discoveries written by Meyer Kayserling and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Bancroft
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of the United States of America written by George Bancroft and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Doug Hunter
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0230341659
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book The Race to the New World written by Doug Hunter and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generalihistory of North America.
Author : Miles H. Davidson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806129341
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (293 download)
Download or read book Columbus Then and Now written by Miles H. Davidson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: his books). Separating fact from fiction, Davidson sheds new light on crucial junctures in Columbus's life: the original contract given him to seek islands in the west, the claimed influence of Marco Polo on Columbus, the supposed sinking of the Santa Maria, and the role played by Jews in connection with the first voyage. At once a retelling of Columbus's life and a critique of other versions, Columbus Then and Now will be of value to Columbists, Latin American scholars,
Author : Frederick Winthrop Hutchinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Men who Found America written by Frederick Winthrop Hutchinson and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gladys M. Imlach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Story of Columbus written by Gladys M. Imlach and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles C. Mann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416949003
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (169 download)
Download or read book Before Columbus written by Charles C. Mann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion book for young readers based upon the explorations of the Americas in 1491, before those of Christopher Columbus.
Author : Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679743375
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)
Download or read book America in 1492 written by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1993-02-02 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John Noble Wilford
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Mysterious History of Columbus written by John Noble Wilford and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1992 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was Christopher Columbus a visionary or an opportunist, a rapacious colonist or a Christian mystic? The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mapmakers gives us a truly judicious portrait of the great navigator--one that is as much about the accretion of the Columbus mythos as it is an absorbing account of his life and character.
Author : Washington Irving
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, Vol. 5 written by Washington Irving and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, Vol. 5: And the Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Columbus Chapter page XXII. - Expedition of Morales and Pizarro to the Shores of the Pacific Ocean Their Visit to the Pearl Islands Their Disastrou.c Return across the Mountains XXIII. - Unfortunate Enterprises of the Offi cers of Pedrarias Matrimonial Compact between the Governor and Vasco Nunez XXIV. - Vasco Nunez Transports Ships across the Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, XXV. - Cruise of Vasco N ufiez in the Southern Sea - Rumors from Acla xxvi.-reconnoitring Expedition of Gara bitratagem of Pedrarias to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Charlotte Harris Rees
Publisher : Light Messages Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1611531098
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (115 download)
Download or read book New World Secrets on Ancient Asian Maps written by Charlotte Harris Rees and published by Light Messages Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte Harris Rees is an independent researcher, a retired federal employee, and an honors graduate of Columbia International University. She has diligently studied the possibility of very early arrival of Chinese to America. In 2003 Rees and her brother took the Harris Map Collection to the Library of Congress where it remained for three years while being studied. In 2006 she published an abridged version of her father's, The Asiatic Fathers of America: Chinese Discovery and Colonization of Ancient America. Her Secret Maps of the Ancient World came out in 2008. In 2011 she released Chinese Sailed to America Before Columbus: More Secrets from the Dr. Hendon M. Harris, Jr. Map Collection. In 2013 she published Did Ancient chinese Explore America? Her books are listed by World Confederation of Institutes and Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies.
Author : Charles C. Mann
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307265722
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book 1493 written by Charles C. Mann and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Laurence Bergreen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014312210X
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
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 : 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 : Kirkpatrick Sale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780340533833
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (338 download)
Download or read book The Conquest of Paradise written by Kirkpatrick Sale and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis of Columbus and his discovery of the New World and how it changed the distribution and mixture of life-forms and cultures.
