Columbus / Felipe Fernández-Armesto
1991, First Edition. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, slightly edge-dulled and sun-toned dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #453732
ISBN: 0192158988
Physical description; xx, 218 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-210) and index. Contents; 1. A man 'raised from nought' : from Genoa to the Atlantic, c.1450-c.1480 -- 2. 'The secrets of this world' : the formation and plans of tastes, c.1480-1492 -- 3. 'His manifest hand' : the quest for patronage, c.1484-1492 -- 4. 'The conquest of what appears impossible' : the first Atlantic crossing, August 1492-March 1493 -- 5. 'Your more divine than human journey' : March 1493-June 1496 and the second crossing -- 6. 'Your will to continue in this enterprise' : June 1496-August 1498 and the third crossing -- 7. 'The devil has been at work' : the Hispaniola colony, 1496-1499 -- 8. 'That sea of blood' : 1500-1504 and the last crossing -- 9. 'The messenger of a new heaven' : decline, death, and reputation. Subjects; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506). Explorers -- America -- Biography. Explorers -- Spain -- Biography. America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish.
Price: €12.95