Christopher Columbus: The Intrepid Mariner
The Intrepid Mariner
Published on 29. June 2011
128 pages
978-0-307-80087-9 (ISBN)
Description
The life and times of one of the world's greatest navigators. Join Columbus on his famous voyage as he struggles against muddled maps, mutiny, his sailors' fear of sea monsters, and the common belief that the world was flat and that he and his crew were going to "sail over the edge".
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08/1989
Ballantine Books
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Sean J. Dolan has degrees in literature and history from the State University of New York. He is the author of a biography of Chiang Kai-shek, the Chinese leader, and has edited many books on historical subjects, including a series on world explorers past and present.
Content
- Intro
- Other Biographies in the Great Lives Series
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Acknowledgment
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 - The Captain General Takes Charge
- Chapter 2 - In Love with the Sea
- Chapter 3 - Pleading His Case
- Chapter 4 - Convincing the Confessor
- Chapter 5 - Finding a New World
- Chapter 6 - An Incomparable Land
- Chapter 7 - Colonizing the New World
- Chapter 8 - The Last Voyage
- About the Author
