The Voyage of Christopher Columbus: Columbus' Own Journal of Discovery Newly Restored and Translated - Hardcover

The Voyage of Christopher Columbus: Columbus' Own Journal of Discovery Newly Restored and Translated.

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Buchbeschreibung Hardcover with dustjacket. Zustand: Gut. VII, 241 p.: Ill., Maps. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag berieben und mit Randläsuren, Buchrücken ausgeblichen, Kopfschnitt angegraut, innen sauber / dust jacket rubbed and with edgewear, spine faded, top edge grayed, clean inside. - The shipboard Journal written by Christopher Columbus has long been lost, though parts of it survive through a copy made in the early sixteenth century by Bartolome de las Casas. It is Las Casas version alone which has, until now, been accepted as the Journal. In an extraordinary piece of scholarship, John Cummins has restored Columbus Journal in a much fuller version than any yet known. Las Casas version is a hodge-podge of syntax and style, omitting some passages and embellishing others. Dr. Cummins has gone back to other sources and translated them anew including Columbus son Fernando s biography of his father, records of legal battles over the spoils, and Columbus own library to reveal a closer understanding than ever before of the voyage that changed the shape of the world. Cummins introduction gives a vivid picture of the fifteenth-century world which gave birth to Columbus and his voyage. He settles once and for all the contentious question of Columbus nationality; he argues that the idea of a "flat earth" was no longer given much credence in Columbus time; he explores Columbus intricate self-deception, his undying conviction that despite all appearances to the contrary he was in the Orient, the land of the Great Khan. In rendering Columbus Journal into English, John Cummins has produced a marvelously readable, inspiring story. He writes in his introduction: "My version is not Columbus original, but then neither is Fernando s, nor the Las Casas manuscript, nor any of the myriad of translations which have followed the Las Casas text. What follows is, I hope, a version corresponding as closely in content to the original as it is possible to produce while that original remains lost." / Contents Acknowledgements Maps 1 1492: An End and a beginning 2 The Orient and the Ocean Sea 3 Cristoforo Colombo 4 Planning and Persuasion 5 Vessels Well Suited 6 Shipboard Life and Sailing 7 Restoring and Translating the Journal The Journal Appendix I The Voyage Seen Through Other Eyes: the Pleitos de Colón Appendix II The Payroll of the Voyage Notes Select Bibliography Sources of Illustrations and Figures Index. ISBN 9780312078805 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 450. Artikel-Nr. 1194810

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