Amerigo Vespucci Pilot Cb
Amerigo Vespucci Pilot Cb

Author: Frederick Julius Pohl

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-28

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1136227202

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First published in 1967. This volume looks at the voyages of Americo Vespucio, to use the Spanish form of the name Amerigo Vespucci, who sailed to the West under the Spanish flag in 1499 and again in 1501 when he sailed to gain geographical information for the King of Portugal who like the King of Spain had been confused by the contradictory reports of Columbus. Columbus to his death believed that he had landed in Asia and not the Americas. Americo discovered the Amazon and the Para Rivers and explored over 6000 miles of continuous shoreline between Venezuela, which he named and a harbour about fifty degrees south on the coast of Argentina. In 1502 he presented 'proof' of the existence of the 'New World'. Americo crossed the Atlantic Ocean and found out and reported what was really there, naming the continent America from the Latin version of his name.

Why America?
Why America?

Author: Germán Arciniegas

Publisher: Villegas Asociados

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 9789588160184

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Despite the fact that the Americas were named after Florentine Amérigo Vespucci, he has been one of the least researched characters in American history. In this profile, Vespucci is revealed as a smart, trustworthy businessman and explorer, worthy of this new world's honor.

Visions of Savage Paradise
Visions of Savage Paradise

Author: Rebecca Parker Brienen

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 9053569472

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Visions of Savage Paradise is the first major book-length study of seventeenth-century Dutch artist Albert Eckhout to be published in nearly seventy years. Eckhout, who was court painter to the colonial governor of Dutch Brazil, created life-size paintings of Amerindians, Africans, and Brazilians of mixed race in support of the governor’s project to document the people and natural history of the colony. In this study, Rebecca Parker Brienen provides a detailed analysis of Eckhout’s works, framing them with discussions of both their colonial context and contemporary artistic practices in the Dutch republic.