Columbus
Title | Columbus PDF eBook |
Author | Ingri D'Aulaire |
Publisher | Yearling Books |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 1992-08-01 |
Genre | America |
ISBN | 9780440407010 |
The story of the life and adventures of Christopher Columbus follows the Genoa-born seaman as he sails across the Atlantic Ocean in search of the treasures of the East. Reissue.
The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus
Title | The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Columbus |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2004-02-05 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0141920424 |
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.
Columbus
Title | Columbus PDF eBook |
Author | Laurence Bergreen |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 455 |
Release | 2011-09-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1101544325 |
From the author of the Magellan biography, Over the Edge of the World, a mesmerizing new account of the great explorer. Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history. Yet Columbus made three more voyages within the span of only a decade, each designed to demonstrate that he could sail to China within a matter of weeks and convert those he found there to Christianity. These later voyages were even more adventurous, violent, and ambiguous, but they revealed Columbus's uncanny sense of the sea, his mingled brilliance and delusion, and his superb navigational skills. In all these exploits he almost never lost a sailor. By their conclusion, however, Columbus was broken in body and spirit. If the first voyage illustrates the rewards of exploration, the latter voyages illustrate the tragic costs- political, moral, and economic. In rich detail Laurence Bergreen re-creates each of these adventures as well as the historical background of Columbus's celebrated, controversial career. Written from the participants' vivid perspectives, this breathtakingly dramatic account will be embraced by readers of Bergreen's previous biographies of Marco Polo and Magellan and by fans of Nathaniel Philbrick, Simon Winchester, and Tony Horwitz.
A Picture Book of Christopher Columbus
Title | A Picture Book of Christopher Columbus PDF eBook |
Author | David A. Adler |
Publisher | Lerner Publishing Group |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2018-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1430130393 |
"Well-produced and appealing readalong...expressive narration and appropriate music and sound effects...Sure bet for story time or home." - Booklist
Boomtown Columbus
Title | Boomtown Columbus PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin R. Cox |
Publisher | Trillium |
Pages | |
Release | 2021-06-05 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780814257920 |
Christopher Columbus Book of Privileges
Title | Christopher Columbus Book of Privileges PDF eBook |
Author | John W. Hessler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 173 |
Release | 2014-07-01 |
Genre | America |
ISBN | 9781929154531 |
"An interpretive examination of the legal documents that granted Columbus rights in and to the New World, with a facsimile of the original copy of the Book of Privileges that is housed in the Library of Congress"--Provided by publisher.
the World of Columbus and Sons
Title | the World of Columbus and Sons PDF eBook |
Author | Genevieve Foster |
Publisher | |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 1965 |
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