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Amazon.com ReviewA Look Inside *Columbus: The Four Voyages* (Click on Images to Enlarge) Description: Engraving of Christopher Columbus offering his services to King John (João) II of Portugal before winning the backing of Spain.Description: World map, c1489, of Henricus Martellus. A similar map is believed to have influenced Columbus’s ideas about his first voyage.Description: Woodcut from 1493 of Native Americans fleeing in fear of Columbus as he sets foot on the Bahama island “Guanahani.”Description: A 1493 woodcut accompanying Columbus’s “Letter on the First Voyage,” illustrating his arrival in the Indies.Description: World map, 1500, of Juan de la Cosa, cartographer and navigator on Christopher Columbus's second voyage of 1493-94.Description: The first page of Columbus’s 1492 manuscript The Book of Privileges.Product Description 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 sp

Author

Laurence Bergreen

Publisher

Viking Adult

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781101544327

Subjects

History, Adventure, Humanities