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The Life of Christopher Columbus
Hardcover
Series: American Pioneers and Patriots
Adventurers & ExplorersHistorical FiguresGeneral World History
ISBN13: 9781646792399
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Published: Sep 3 2020
Pages: 382
Weight: 1.39
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
...Christopher Columbus, the most illustrious of all the pioneers of the New World. Columbus had his enemies. He has been vehemently assailed. The writer has endeavored to give a perfectly correct account of his character and career... -John S.C. Abbott, Preface, 1875
American historian John S.C. Abbott wrote The Life of Christopher Columbus (1875) as part of his American Pioneers and Patriots series. Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) Italian explorer and colonizer, whose four transatlantic voyages (1492-93, 1493-96, 1498-1500, and 1502-04) opened the New World for European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
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