The Last Voyages Of The Admiral Of The Ocean Sea As Related By Himself And His Companions

Author : Charles Paul Mac Kie
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ISBN 13 : 9781331656203
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book The Last Voyages of the Admiral of the Ocean Sea written by Charles Paul Mac Kie and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Last Voyages of the Admiral of the Ocean Sea: As Related by Himself and His Companions It is not consistent with the spirit of justice which is the inheritance of the true American that any man, however long dead, should be condemned unheard, or upon a partial record. Few among the men of action of his time left such ample declaration both of purpose and performance as did Columbus, yet none has been more mercilessly assailed upon ex parte evidence. Weighty names have of late asked the world of students to accept their individual estimates of the great sailors character based upon their presentation of his aims and actions, treating his own utterances as insignificant or untrustworthy. Were we limited to the chronicles of his life and deeds as apprehended by contemporary or later historians, this method might be necessary; but happily the case is otherwise. The letters and reports of Columbus are neither scanty nor difficult of access, and there is no good reason apparent to us why the reader should not be enabled to form his conclusions at first hand. There is no occasion for treating as a mystery the open book of this mans life, for he himself knew neither reserve nor artifice in its inditing. Of him it may in truth be said, that out of his own mouth is he toe judged. The story of Columbus, as we know it, is sharply divided into two epochs, - the twelvemonth which covers the Discovery, and the fourteen years which succeeded it. 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.