A biography of the fifteenth-century Italian seaman and navigator who unknowingly discovered a new continent while looking for a western route to India.
""The book is an idea that has finally found its time.""--Publisher's Weekly ""I think your book on Christopher Columbus is important. I'm more grateful for that book than any other book I have read in a couple of years.""--Kurt Vonnegut.
Discusses how the expeditions of Columbus increased the wealth of Spain, yet severely damaged the lives of the native Americans.
Rather than focusing on the well-rehearsed facts of Columbus's achievements in the New World, Valerie Flint looks instead at his imaginative mental images, the powerful "fantasies" that gave energy to his endeavors in the Renaissance. With him on his voyages into the unknown, he…
Follows the voyages of discovery made by Christopher Columbus through excerpts from the journals he kept of his travels.
Follows the first voyage of discovery made by Christopher Columbus through excerpts from the journal he kept.
Follows the voyages of discovery made by Christopher Columbus through excerpts from the journals he kept of his travels.
I, Columbus: my journal, 1492-3
by Roop, Peter, Roop, Connie, Hanson, Peter E., Columbus, Christopher
Follows the first voyage of discovery made by Christopher Columbus through excerpts from the journal he kept. Excerpts and edited portions of the actual journal Columbus kept during his 1492 voyage.
I, Columbus: my journal, 1492-3
by Columbus, Christopher, Roop, Peter, Roop, Connie, Hanson, Peter E.
Follows the first voyage of discovery made by Christopher Columbus through excerpts from the journal he kept. Excerpts and edited portions of the actual journal Columbus kept during his 1492 voyage.
