Rethinking Columbus
Title | Rethinking Columbus PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Bigelow |
Publisher | Rethinking Schools |
Pages | 197 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 094296120X |
Provides resources for teaching elementary and secondary school students about Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America.
The Caribbean as Columbus Saw it
Title | The Caribbean as Columbus Saw it PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Eliot Morison |
Publisher | |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | America |
ISBN |
Informal historical travelogue of the West Indies area by Cessna airplane, following in the wake of the explorer's four voyages westward.
Christopher Columbus
Title | Christopher Columbus PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Krensky |
Publisher | Random House Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 41 |
Release | 2013-09-25 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0385374720 |
Independent readers can learn about Columbus's fateful voyage in this dramatic, easy-to-read account of a pivotal moment in American history.
Meet Christopher Columbus
Title | Meet Christopher Columbus PDF eBook |
Author | James T. de Kay |
Publisher | Random House Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 81 |
Release | 2012-04-25 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0307814947 |
Schoolchildren will be fascinated by this clear account of Columbus's voyages and his encounters with storms, Indians, and political intrigue. A map of the world in Columbus's time and a detailed drawing of the Santa Maria add depth to this exciting, real-life adventure tale.
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.
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
Title | The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Wilson-Lee |
Publisher | Scribner |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2020-03-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1982111402 |
This 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.
Atlas of Columbus and the Great Discoveries
Title | Atlas of Columbus and the Great Discoveries PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Nebenzahl |
Publisher | Chicago : Rand McNally |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | America |
ISBN | 9780528834073 |
Depicts fifteenth- and sixteenth-century maps and describes how the way the world was portrayed changed as mapmakers incorporated information on the Americas into their work