The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus
Being His Own Log-book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narrative Drawn from the "Life of the Admiral" by His Son Hernando Colon and Other Contemporary Historians
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- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
20 December 2002
Summary
The anthropological account of Columbus’ discovery of the Americas.
“The Admiral was quite certain that they were near land… He promised to give a silk doublet to the first sailor who should report it.”
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 Caribbe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140442175 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140442170 |
| Author: | Christopher Columbus, J. Cohen |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 20 December 2002 |
| Weight: | 239g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Christopher Columbus
JM Cohen (1903 - 1989) was the translator of many volumes for the Penguin Classics, including versions of Rabelais, Cervantes and Montaigne.
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