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Columbus
Author | : Laurence Bergreen |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 2011-09-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781101544327 |
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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. 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.
The Columbus Code
Author | : Mike Evans |
Publsiher | : Worthy Books |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2015-09-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781617955723 |
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In 1492 Christopher Columbus bore a secret agenda as he set out with his tiny fleet to discover a New World. The startling truth? Columbus himself was a Jew! And he sought a new home for his persecuted Jewish kin to escape King Ferdinand's and Queen Isabella's newly wrought Spanish Inquisition.
Columbus
Author | : Ingri D'Aulaire,Edgar Parin D'Aulaire |
Publsiher | : Yearling Books |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1992-08-01 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : 044040701X |
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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 Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
Author | : Edward Wilson-Lee |
Publsiher | : Scribner |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2020-03-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781982111403 |
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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.
Lies My Teacher Told Me about Christopher Columbus
Author | : James W. Loewen |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1595589856 |
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Some myths don't die, and lies are still being told about Christopher Columbus: that he 'discovered' the Americas, that the land was sparsely populated by native people, that those people were primitive and that they submitted to Columbus's 'God-like' authority. Loewen disproves the myths about Columbus still enshrined in American textbooks with quotations from primary source material that sets the record straight. The poster and accompanying 48-page paperback book sum up the mistellings - and reveal the real story - in a graphically appealing and accessible format.
Before Columbus
Author | : Charles C. Mann,Rebecca Stefoff |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2009-09-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781416949008 |
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Based on the startling revelations that the author presented in his adult-level 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, this book for young readers is a fascinating full-color journey into the world of the many advanced cultures that populated the Americas before the arrival of European explorers.
Knights of Columbus
Author | : George M. Schrode |
Publsiher | : Turner Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1563111144 |
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A 90 year history of the Knights of Columbus, Kentucky State Council.
Baseball in Columbus
Author | : James R. Tootle |
Publsiher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2002-11-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 073852302X |
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In the spring of 1865, the first spring after the end of the Civil War, three baseball clubs were founded in downtown Columbus. This local enthusiasm for the game reflected the national trend during the post-war era, when baseball, or "base ball" as it was called, was spreading rapidly throughout the United States. Baseball in Columbus begins with these earliest baseball pioneers and tells the story of the national pastime in the capital city right up to the present-day Columbus Clippers of the International League. Columbus first made the "big leagues" in 1883 with the Columbus Buckeyes of the American Association, and local fans have embraced the city's teams and players ever since. Several of baseball's greats once wore a Columbus uniform during their minor league careers, including Enos Slaughter, Joe Garagiola, Harvey Haddix, Willie Stargell, Derek Jeter, and Bernie Williams.