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Felipe Fernández-Armesto - Columbus on Himself, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

Columbus on Himself

Av Felipe Fernández-Armesto

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Intended as an antidote to potted biographies and piecemeal reconstructions of his voyages, this volume draws on judicious selections from Christopher Columbus's own writings--chronologically arranged, and translated into idiomatic English--to relate his self-perception and personal history, as far as is possible, in his own words. The result is a full and vivid (and often surprising) portrait of this complex man and the role he thought he was destined to play as God's instrument on earth.Twenty-four illustrations, maps of Columbus’s routes across the Atlantic and his travels in the West Indies, and an index further enhance this introduction to his life and discoveries.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2010-03-15
  • Mått: 153 x 229 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 539 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 300
  • Förlag: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
  • ISBN: 9781603841344
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto is Professor of Global Environmental History at Queen Mary, University of London, and a member of the Faculty of Modern History at Oxford University. He is also Principe de Asturias Chair in Spanish Culture and Civilization at Tufts University.

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Columbus had been the subject of many biographies, but the approach of Columbus on Himself is unique. Fernández-Armesto has created, as far as it is possible, an account of Christopher Columbus's life based on his own words. Columbus left far more potentially autobiographical writings than his contemporary explorers from the age of European expansion, but there are gaps in the record. Fernández-Armesto has arranged Columbus's writings chronologically so readers can see Columbus's development, and intersperses them with his insightful commentary. The translations are Fernández-Armesto's own. Recommended. --R. Fritze, Athens State University, in Choice

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