Christopher Columbus and the Conquest of Paradise
Subtitle: Second Edition (Tauris Parke Paperbacks)
Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Published: May 18, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9781845111540
Subjects: American history; Biography: general; Geographical discovery & exploration; c 1000 CE to c 1500; United States - State & Local - General; History - General History; History; History - U.S.; History: World; The Americas; History / United States / State & Local; Expeditions & Discoveries; Historical - General
First sentence: NO RELIABLE record comes down to us of the weather on that Friday morning in early August 1492 not long before dawn broke over the little pon village of Palos, a few miles up the River Tinto at the southwestern corner of Castile, on the edge of the peninsula giving Europe its farthest thrust into the expanse of water then known as the Ocean Sea.