The Log of Christopher Columbus' First Voyage to America in the Year 1492 [Hardcover]

Christopher Columbus (Author), Bartolome De Las Casas (Author), John O'Hara Cosgrave (Author, Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1989

Presents the log of Christopher Columbus as copied out in brief by his companion, Bartholomew Las Casas, relating the day-to-day drama of a long sea voyage into the unknown.

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Language Notes

Text: English, Spanish (translation)

About the Author

Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) was a navigator, colonizer, and explorer from Genoa, Italy, whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere. With his four voyages of exploration and several attempts at establishing a settlement on the island of Hispaniola, all funded by Isabella I of Castile, he initiated the process of Spanish colonization which foreshadowed general European colonization of the "New World". Although not the first to reach the Americas from Europe-he was preceded by at least one other group, the Norse, led by Leif Ericson, who built a temporary settlement 500 years earlier at L'Anse aux Meadows-Columbus initiated widespread contact between Europeans and indigenous Americans. The term "pre-Columbian" is usually used to refer to the peoples and cultures of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus and his European successors. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 84 pages
• Publisher: Linnet Books; First Thus edition (February 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0208022473
• ISBN-13: 978-0208022479
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,357,840 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)