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Columbus - The Four Voyages, 1492-1504 (Paperback)
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Columbus - The Four Voyages, 1492-1504 (Paperback)
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List price R347
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Discovery Miles 2 940
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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 populace he found, encouraged genocide, and
polluted relations between peoples. He ended his career in near
lunacy. But Columbus had one asset that made all 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 energetic
and bracing book gives the whole Columbus and most importantly, the
whole of his career, not just the highlight of 1492. Columbus
undertook three more voyages between 1494 and 1504, each designed
to demonstrate that he could 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 spirit, a hero undone
by the tragic flaw of pride. If the first voyage illustrates the
rewards of exploration, this book shows how the subsequent voyages
illustrate the costs - political, moral, and economic.
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