Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1492-1504
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He knew nothing of celestial navigation or of the existence of the Pacific Ocean. He was a self-promoting and ambitious entrepreneur. His maps were a hybrid of fantasy and delusion. When he did ma...
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He knew nothing of celestial navigation or of the existence of the Pacific Ocean. He was a self-promoting and ambitious entrepreneur. His maps were a hybrid of fantasy and delusion. When he did make land, he enslaved the popu lace he found, encouraged genocide, and polluted relations between peoples. He ended his career in near lunacy. But Columbus had one asset that made a ll the difference, an inborn sense of the sea, of wind and weather, and of selecting the optimal course to get from A to B. Laurence Bergreen's energe tic and bracing book gives the whole Columbus and most importantly, the who le of his career, not just the highlight of 1492. Columbus undertook three more voyages between 1494 and 1504, each designed to demonstrate that he co uld sail to China within a matter of weeks and convert those he found there to Christianity. By their conclusion, Columbus was broken in body and spir it, a hero undone by the tragic flaw of pride. If the first voyage illustra tes the rewards of exploration, this book shows how the subsequent voyages illustrate the costs - political, moral, and economic.
Product Info
ISBN: 014312210X
ISBN-13: 9780143122104
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2013
Type: Used
Binding: Softcover
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