Author:Christopher Columbus

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Christopher Columbus
(1451–1506)
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Italian navigator, colonizer and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere; among his writings are several journals and letters detailing his voyages

Christopher Columbus

Works

  • Writings of Christopher Columbus: descriptive of the discovery and occupation of the new world, edited by Paul Leicester Ford, New York: 1892. (external scan)
  • The journal of Christopher Columbus (during his first voyage, 1492-93) and documents relating the voyages of John Cabot and Gaspar Corte Real, edited by Clements Robert Markham, London: 1893. (external scan)
  • The authentic letters of Columbus, edited and translated by William Eleroy Curtis, Chicago: 1895. (external scan)

Works about Columbus

Biographical volumes

Encyclopedia articles

Fiction

Poetry


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