Christopher Columbus Comes to Rhode Island!
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 45,72 MB
Release : 1994
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ISBN : 0793337380
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 45,72 MB
Release : 1994
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ISBN : 0793337380
Author : Christopher Columbus
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 10,60 MB
Release : 2021-03-15
Category :
ISBN : 9789354483202
Letter Of Christopher Columbus To Rafael Sanchez, Written On Board The Caravel While Returning From His First Voyage has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Author : Carol Delaney
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 17,24 MB
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439102325
FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AFTER HE SET SAIL, the dominant understanding of Christopher Columbus holds him responsible for almost everything that went wrong in the New World. Here, finally, is a book that will radically change our interpretation of the man and his mission. Scholar Carol Delaney claims that the true motivation for Columbus’s voyages is very different from what is commonly accepted. She argues that he was inspired to find a western route to the Orient not only to obtain vast sums of gold for the Spanish Crown but primarily to help fund a new crusade to take Jerusalem from the Muslims—a goal that sustained him until the day he died. Rather than an avaricious glory hunter, Delaney reveals Columbus as a man of deep passion, patience, and religious conviction. Delaney sets the stage by describing the tumultuous events that had beset Europe in the years leading up to Columbus’s birth—the failure of multiple crusades to keep Jerusalem in Christian hands; the devastation of the Black Plague; and the schisms in the Church. Then, just two years after his birth, the sacking of Constantinople by the Ottomans barred Christians from the trade route to the East and the pilgrimage route to Jerusalem. Columbus’s belief that he was destined to play a decisive role in the retaking of Jerusalem was the force that drove him to petition the Spanish monarchy to fund his journey, even in the face of ridicule about his idea of sailing west to reach the East. Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem is based on extensive archival research, trips to Spain and Italy to visit important sites in Columbus’s life story, and a close reading of writings from his day. It recounts the drama of the four voyages, bringing the trials of ocean navigation vividly to life and showing Columbus for the master navigator that he was. Delaney offers not an apologist’s take, but a clear-eyed, thought-provoking, and timely reappraisal of the man and his legacy. She depicts him as a thoughtful interpreter of the native cultures that he and his men encountered, and unfolds the tragic story of how his initial attempts to establish good relations with the natives turned badly sour, culminating in his being brought back to Spain as a prisoner in chains. Putting Columbus back into the context of his times, rather than viewing him through the prism of present-day perspectives on colonial conquests, Delaney shows him to have been neither a greedy imperialist nor a quixotic adventurer, as he has lately been depicted, but a man driven by an abiding religious passion.
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 43,97 MB
Release : 1994
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ISBN : 0793349257
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 33,73 MB
Release : 1992-09
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ISBN : 0793374154
Author : Christopher Columbus
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 45,68 MB
Release : 1827
Category : America
ISBN :
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 43,23 MB
Release : 1994
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ISBN : 079335840X
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 37,92 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 0793377625
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 18,64 MB
Release : 1994
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ISBN : 0793309956
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 29,28 MB
Release : 1994
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ISBN : 0793309832