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From Al-Andalus to Monte Sacro (Hardcover) Loot Price: R945
Discovery Miles 9 450
From Al-Andalus to Monte Sacro (Hardcover): Dolores Luna-Guinot

From Al-Andalus to Monte Sacro (Hardcover)

Dolores Luna-Guinot

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During the time he spent in the Portuguese islands of Porto Santo and Madeira, Cristopher Columbus, a navigator from Genoa, was in charge of a dying sailor, from Castile whose caravel had been carried by the current from the Gulf of Guinea to a remote sea, possibly the Caribean.

On his deathbed, this man had told

Columbus the secret of some lands where Siberians had arrived during the Pleistocene and some documents about some possible previous trips. This sailor assured that such lands he had achieved carried by the currents were the same ones he was referring to.

When Columbus arrived in Spain, he tried to convince the Crown of Castile about his projects, which were precisely the same ones that Isaiah had prophesied as destined for getting the limits of the horizons. During his description, Columbus looked so sure that both the Queen Isabel and the King Fernando wondered whether he was trying to conceal a proved reality, a mistery he took to his grave.

When Columbus asked them for a subsidy, Fernando el Catolico commented him that coffers were empty at that point as they had just subjugated the whole Al-Andalus after the seizure of Granada and therefore the defeat of the most unlucky Nasrid king, Boabdil, known as "the little man."

Due to the Spanish explorers of the 15th century, Spain became the biggest commercial power amongst the European countries. They built up settlements which would last until three centuries later in a colonizing expansive process; until the loss of Spanish power on such territories from the decade of 1810s on, when the Independence began. Since the late 18th century, until the early 19th Century, the West witnessed a series of chain revolutions which affected Western Europe and Spanish America at the same time.

The invasion of Napoleon, Francisco de Miranda, Simon Bolivar, Masonic lodges, together with envies, betrayals or lovers make this book to be a thrilling adventure based on historic real.

General

Imprint: Trafford Publishing
Country of origin: United States
Release date: March 2014
First published: March 2014
Authors: Dolores Luna-Guinot
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 978-1-4907-1157-7
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Geographical discovery & exploration
Books > Biography > General
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LSN: 1-4907-1157-0
Barcode: 9781490711577

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