Letter of Christopher Columbus to Rafael Sanchez
Author: Christopher Columbus
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 44
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Author: Christopher Columbus
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carl Frederik Wandel
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 362
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Edward Nowell
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2018-12-02
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 1789127084
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“...a fundamental work for anyone who desires both the English version of the story of this path-breaking voyage and an up-to-date evaluation of the scholarly production about the voyage that has appeared during the last four and a half centuries.”—Lewis Hanke, Columbia University Today when men orbit the globe in a few minutes, it is difficult to imagine the awe that accompanied the news of the three years’ voyage completing man’s first circumnavigation of the earth. Wonder and amazement marked the contemporary accounts of Magellan’s hazardous adventure; and now the three best accounts have been gathered into one volume and provided with an introduction and commentary based on the most accurate historical information available by an eminent scholar of Hispanic studies. Included are translations of the accounts by Antonio Pigafetta, one of the eighteen actual survivors of the 241 who undertook the voyage; by the secretary of Emperor Charles V, Maximilian of Transylvania, who wrote a long report based on first-hand accounts to his father, the Cardinal of Salzburg; and by Gaspar Correa, a Portuguese historian, who twenty years later wrote of the voyage mixing fact with fanciful tales of the Far East. Several of the maps prepared for this edition are in the style of the period and represent conceptions of the world as seen by cartographers and navigators at the beginning of the Age of Discovery.
Author: Great Britain. Challenger Office
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Published: 1884
Total Pages: 990
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tony Horwitz
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2008-04-29
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 1429937734
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe bestselling author of Blue Latitudes takes us on a thrilling and eye-opening voyage to pre-Mayflower America On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he's mislaid more than a century of American history, from Columbus's sail in 1492 to Jamestown's founding in 16-oh-something. Did nothing happen in between? Determined to find out, he embarks on a journey of rediscovery, following in the footsteps of the many Europeans who preceded the Pilgrims to America. An irresistible blend of history, myth, and misadventure, A Voyage Long and Strange captures the wonder and drama of first contact. Vikings, conquistadors, French voyageurs—these and many others roamed an unknown continent in quest of grapes, gold, converts, even a cure for syphilis. Though most failed, their remarkable exploits left an enduring mark on the land and people encountered by late-arriving English settlers. Tracing this legacy with his own epic trek—from Florida's Fountain of Youth to Plymouth's sacred Rock, from desert pueblos to subarctic sweat lodges—Tony Horwitz explores the revealing gap between what we enshrine and what we forget. Displaying his trademark talent for humor, narrative, and historical insight, A Voyage Long and Strange allows us to rediscover the New World for ourselves.
Author: Hugh Hamilton Lindsay
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Published: 1833
Total Pages: 312
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Published: 1885
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frank Alfred Golder
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 414
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTranslated from the logs and journals. Includes a chart of the voyage of Bering and Chirikov in the St. Peter and the St. Paul from Kamchatka to the Alaska coast and return, 1741, based on the log books and other original records and adjusted to known physical conditions by Ellsworth P. Bertholf (v.1).
Author: Antonio Pigafetta
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0802093701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe First Voyage around the World is also a remarkably accurate ethnographic and geographical account of the circumnavigation, and one that has earned its reputation among modern historiographers and students of the early contacts between Europe and the East Indies.