Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery
Author: Filson Young
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 387
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Author: Filson Young
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 387
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carole S. Gallagher
Publisher: Chelsea House
Published: 1999-10
Total Pages: 63
ISBN-13: 9780791055090
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA biography of the Italian explorer who, in the fifteenth century, became the first European to discover the West Indies islands, located below the southernmost tip of the United States, in three historic voyages sponsored by Spain's monarchy.
Author: Doug Hunter
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-10-02
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0230341659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeneralihistory of North America.
Author: Christopher Columbus
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2004-02-05
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 0141920424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo 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: Doug West
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781005959791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Filson Young
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: 2021-10-22
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9789355348333
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.
Author: William D. Phillips
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780521446525
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen 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: Edward Wilson-Lee
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2020-03-10
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1982111402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis impeccably researched and “adventure-packed” (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus’s son to create the greatest library in the world is “the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters” (NPR) and offers a vivid picture of Europe on the verge of becoming modern. At the peak of the Age of Exploration, Hernando Colón sailed with his father Christopher Columbus on his final voyage to the New World, a journey that ended in disaster, bloody mutiny, and shipwreck. After Columbus’s death in 1506, eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continue—and surpass—his father’s campaign to explore the boundaries of the known world by building a library that would collect everything ever printed: a vast holding organized by summaries and catalogues; really, the first ever database for the exploding diversity of written matter as the printing press proliferated across Europe. Hernando traveled extensively and obsessively amassed his collection based on the groundbreaking conviction that a library of universal knowledge should include “all books, in all languages and on all subjects,” even material often dismissed: ballads, erotica, news pamphlets, almanacs, popular images, romances, fables. The loss of part of his collection to another maritime disaster in 1522, set off the final scramble to complete this sublime project, a race against time to realize a vision of near-impossible perfection. “Magnificent…a thrill on almost every page” (The New York Times Book Review), The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books is a window into sixteenth-century Europe’s information revolution, and a reflection of the passion and intrigues that lie beneath our own insatiable desires to bring order to the world today.
Author: Filson Young
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-11-21
Total Pages: 433
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs one can surmise from the title, the following book revolves around the life and exploits of Christopher Columbus. He was an Italian explorer and navigator who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas. His expeditions were the first known European contact with the Caribbean, Central America, and South America.
Author: Peter Chrisp
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Published: 2006-04
Total Pages: 47
ISBN-13: 9780756619657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooks at the expeditons of Christopher Columbus, describing the routes he took and the places, people, foods, and animals he discovered.