Columbus The Four Voyages (9780670023011) Laurence Bergreen


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Publisher: Viking Adult (September 20, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0670023019
ISBN-13: 978-0670023011

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6.1 x 9.2 inches
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From the author of the Magellan biography, Over the Edge of the World, a mesmerizing new account of the great explorer fashion design for dummies pdf. 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 fashion design for dummies pdf. 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 fashion design for dummies pdf. 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 fashion design for dummies pdf. 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.

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