03267cam a2200373 4500 240218669 TxAuBib 20140811120000.0 ||||||s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781101544327 1101544325 B0052RDJ5Y Amazon 8e5fd2f2-7f77-488f-9b1c-718ab2a4d395 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 592039 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Bergreen, Laurence. Columbus [Libby eBook] : The Four Voyages. Penguin Publishing Group, 2011. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1315kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. North America. HTML:<p>From the author of the Magellan biography, <i>Over the Edge of the World,</i> a mesmerizing new account of the great explorer.</p> <p>Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history. Yet Columbus made three more voyages within the span of only a decade, each designed to demonstrate that he could sail to China within a matter of weeks and convert those he found there to Christianity. These later voyages were even more adventurous, violent, and ambiguous, but they revealed Columbus's uncanny sense of the sea, his mingled brilliance and delusion, and his superb navigational skills. In all these exploits he almost never lost a sailor. By their conclusion, however, Columbus was broken in body and spirit. If the first voyage illustrates the rewards of exploration, the latter voyages illustrate the tragic costs- political, moral, and economic.</p> <p>In rich detail Laurence Bergreen re-creates each of these adventures as well as the historical background of Columbus's celebrated, controversial career. Written from the participants' vivid perspectives, this breathtakingly dramatic account will be embraced by readers of Bergreen's previous biographies of Marco Polo and Magellan and by fans of Nathaniel Philbrick, Simon Winchester, and Tony Horwitz.</p>. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-11 10:13:24. http://slc.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=8e5fd2f2-7f77-488f-9b1c-718ab2a4d395 http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1523-1/8E5/FD2/F2/Columbus9781101544327.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8E5FD2F2-7F77-488F-9B1C-718AB2A4D395&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1523-1/8E5/FD2/F2/Columbus9781101544327.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8E5FD2F2-7F77-488F-9B1C-718AB2A4D395&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1523-1/8E5/FD2/F2/Columbus9781101544327.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8E5FD2F2-7F77-488F-9B1C-718AB2A4D395&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)