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Admiral of the ocean sea: a life of Christopher Columbus

Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976.

Year: 1942.

Publisher: Little, Brown and Co..

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Frontmatter

Spanish Coins of Columbian Era

Preface

THE FIRST FORTY YEARS

I Prologue

II Genoa

III Cheerfully at Sea

IV Lusitania

V The Man Columbus

VI The Enterprise of the Indies

VII In Castile

VIII The Queen Consents

IX Ninia, Pinta and Santa Maria

X Officers and Men

THE FIRST VOYAGE TO AMERICA

XI Bound Away

XII A Day at Sea

XIII How Columbus Navigated

XIV Atlantic Crossing

XV Adelante! Adelante!

XVI Landfall

XVII The Quest for Japan

XVIII Pursuit of the Grand Khan

XIX Oriente

XX La Isla Espanola

XXI La Navidad

XXII Homeward Passage

XXIII Azorean Agony

XXIV In Portuguese Power

XXV Home Is the Sailor

XXVI Diplomatic Interlude

XXVII Spreading the News

THE SECOND VOYAGE TO AMERICA

XXVIII The Grand Fleet

XXIX Many Marys

XXX Saints and Virgins

XXXI Cibao

XXXII Cuba and Jamaica

XXXIII The Queen's Garden

XXXIV Back to Isabela

XXXV Hell in Hispaniola

XXXVI Crowded Crossing

THE THIRD VOYAGE TO AMERICA

XXXVII Preparations

XXXVIII Trinidad

XXXIX Paria

XL Terrestrial Paradise

XLI Terrestrial Inferno

THE FOURTH VOYAGE TO AMERICA

XLII Last Chance

XLIII Hurricane

XLIV Search for a Strait

XLV Veragua

XLVI Belen

XLVII At Sea in a Sieve

XLVIII Marooned

XLIX Rescue and End

Index

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Title:

Admiral of the ocean sea : a life of Christopher Columbus by Samuel Eliot Morison ; maps by Erwin Raisz ; drawings by Bertram Greene.

Author:

Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976

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Admiral of the ocean sea : a life of Christopher Columbus by Samuel Eliot Morison ; maps by Erwin Raisz ; drawings by Bertram Greene.
Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976
Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1942.

URL:

http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.02778

Subject Headings:

• Columbus, Christopher -- Life and voyages
• Explorers -- Spain -- Biography
• Explorers -- America -- Biography
• America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish

Notes:

• Map on lining-papers.
• "A condensation of my two-volume Admiral of the ocean sea, published at the same time. All the notes have been omitted, and a good many pages of navigational data; a chapter on ships and sailing and one on the origin of syphilis have been summarized. Otherwise the two editions are identical"--P. xx.
• "Salve regina" (words and melody): p. [181]
• "An Atlantic Monthly Press book."
• Electronic access restricted; authentication may be required

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