Christopher columbus biography books
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The Life promote the Admiral Christopher Columbus
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A Picture Book of Christopher Columbus
Today, as I write this review of A Picture Book of Christopher Columbus, it is Columbus Day, marking the 528th year since modern contact was made between the peoples of Europe and those of the Americas. It is a holiday that has become controversial of late, dividing opinion between those who feel we should not celebrate the day, given the disastrous consequences that first contact had for the native peoples of this hemisphere, and those who believe that
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A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
Book by Washington Irving
A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus is a fictional biographical account of Christopher Columbus written by Washington Irving in 1828. It was published in four volumes in Britain and in three volumes in the United States.[1][2][3] The work was the most popular treatment of Columbus in the English-speaking world until the publication of Samuel Eliot Morison's biography Admiral of the Ocean Sea in 1942.[3] It is one of the first examples of American historical fiction and one of several attempts at nationalistic myth-making undertaken by American writers and poets of the 19th century.[4] It also helped to perpetuate the myth that medieval people believed the Earth was flat.
Writing
[edit]Irving was invited to Madrid to translate Spanish-language source material on Columbus into English. Irving decided to use the sources to write his own four-volume biography and history. Irving was a fiction writer and employed his talent to create an hyperbolic story of Christopher Columbus.[1]
During the research, he worked closely with Alexander von Humboldt, who had recently returned from his own North and South