In Search of Columbus: The Sources for the First Voyage
Language: English
Published by University of Arizona Press, 1991
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Royal octavo, hardcover, brief note on endpaper else near fine in VG yellow dj. 359 pp. including index. Everyone knows Columbus reached the New World in October of 1492. But where? Now David Henige here subjects Columbus' diario to rigorous analysis to conclude that modern attempts to fix the site of Columbus's first landfall can only be speculative at best.
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- Title
- In Search of Columbus: The Sources for the First Voyage
- Author
- Henige, David
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press
- Publication year
- 1991
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0816510903
- ISBN 13
- 9780816510900
Everyone knows Columbus reached the New World in October of 1492. But where? Now David Henige here subjects Columbus' diario to rigorous analysis to conclude that modern attempts to fix the site of Columbus's first landfall can only be speculative at best.
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Review
"A scholarly, fascinating exercise in literary-historical detection."—Geographical Journal"A virtuoso performance, showing how hard if not impossible it is to extract the original of Columbus's log from the later paraphrase."—Gary Wills in the New York Review of Books
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Virginia Martin, aka bookwitch
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