Download or read book A Modern Columbus Classic Reprint written by Richard George Knowles and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Modern Columbus After a heroic struggle, heartburnings, and the joys and sorrows (measles included) which are child hood's inheritance, I reached the ninth anniversary of my birth; and that was a red-letter day in my existence, for my mother very graciously presented me with a stepfather as a token of esteem and regard. This I did not hesitate to look upon as a flagrant breach of contract, having hoped to acquire a popgun or a catapult. Even something useful would have been more acceptable. Under these circumstances, the addition to the family circle created anything but a favourable impression upon the previous arrival, and arguments became more frequent and acrimonious in character, being conducted upon a triangular basis, of which triangle I was certainly not the apex. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book COLUMBUS CLASSIC REPRINT written by SOPHUS. RUGE and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Century of Columbus Classic Reprint written by James Joseph Walsh and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Century of Columbus In a previous book, The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries, I described the period of human activity in which, as it appears to me, more was accomplished that is of significance in the expression of what is best in man and for the development of humanity than during any corresponding period of the world's history. To many people it may now seem that I am setting up a rival to the Thirteenth Century in what is here called The Century of Columbus, the period from 1450 to 1550. I may as a foreword say, then, that there is no thought of that and that I still feel quite sure that the Thirteenth is the Great est of Centuries, though it must be admitted that probably more supremely great men were at work in Columbus' Cen tury than in the preceding period. The Thirteenth Century is greatest, however, because its achievements were more widely diffused in their in uence and because more of man kind had the opportunity and the incentive to bring out the highest that was in them, than at any other period in the world's history. As a consequence a greater proportion of mankind was happy than ever before or since, for happiness comes only with the consciousness of good work done and the satisfaction of personal achievement. And that is the greatest period of human history when man is the happiest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book The Story of Columbus Classic Reprint written by Ada M. Kennicott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of Columbus Is that why you study so hard, Christopher? Asked his comrade, toss ing, as he spoke, a pebble into the white fringe of the surf. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Christopher Columbus written by Charles Kendall Adams and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Christopher Columbus: His Life and His Work The researches of this acute critic in the manuscript records, as well as in the published writings of Italy and Spain, make his works indispensable to a correct understanding of the age of Columbus. I have not, however, been able to adopt without reservation his views in regard to the work attributed to the son of the Admiral. The force of Harrisse's reasoning is unquestionable; but, as it seems to me, there is internal evidence that the author of the book, whether Fernando or not, had unusual opportunities for knowledge in regard to the matters about which he wrote. While, therefore, I have used the work with great caution, I have not felt justified in rejecting it as altogether spurious. The reader will not go far in the perusal of this volume without perceiving that I have endeavoured to emancipate myself from the thraldom of that uncritical admiration in which it has been fashionable to hold the Discoverer, ever since Washington Irving threw over the subject the romantic and bewitching charm of his literary skill. Irving revealed the spirit with which he wrote when he decried what he was pleased to call "that pernicious erudition which busies itself with undermining the pedestals of our national monuments." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Pictorial Modern History from the Discovery of America by Columbus to the Present Time Classic Reprint written by John Frost and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Pictorial Modern History, From the Discovery of America by Columbus to the Present Time And bringing into strong relief the men and things that have exerted the strongest influence on the grand current of human affairs. The divisions of the subject are few, and the narrative as simple and direct as so extensive a plan would by any means permit. Leading characters and events are dwelt upon according to the author's estimate of their relative importance, and others are necessarily passed over with, comparatively, slight notice. But little Space has been afforded to the history of our own country, from the conviction that this course would be most acceptable to intelligent readers, familiar as they are with all the great events of American history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Christopher Columbus and the Participation of the Jews in the Spanish and Portuguese Discoveries written by Meyer Kayserling and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery written by Filson Young and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery: A Narrative I have received the proofs of the new and revised edition of your Columbus, and I have noted the passages which have been materially altered from the original edition. This book marks an epoch in Columbian literature for in it the hero who discovered the New World is shown for the first time as a living man. You have raised him from the dust of documents and shown him as a human being, a creature of flesh and blood who acts thinks, loves and fights like ourselves, and who is subject, as all real men must be, to passions, mistakes and illusions. You have had the courage to cut loose from the traditional line followed by all the modern biographers of Columbus; and although I differ from you in certain details, I look upon your book as giving a more true and lively picture of the great discoverer than is contained in any other work written on the subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Columbus and What He Found Classic Reprint written by Mary H. Hull and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Columbus and What He Found The immortal deed of Columbus will never lose its hold upon the heart of humanity, Whatever the criticisms upon it. It will always be told, not only for what was found, but because simple heroism - the same element which has immortalized Greek heroic tales - will always move us, head and heart. It is strange that, great and simple as Columbus was, we have made so little use of his story for the children, compared with that of other historic characters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book With Columbus in America written by C. Falkenhorst and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from With Columbus in America: A Novel Bartolomeo - seemed no less preoccupied, and paid as little attention to the service as his elder com panion. But it was no fair maiden who so eu chained his attention. His features, larger and of a sterner mould than his brother's, were contracted in a frown of intense thought. His eyes, clear and piercing, gazed straight before him, but it is doubt ful if he noticed any of his surroundings. At length the service was at an end, and the congregation prepared to depart. The slight young girl with her companion, a stout, plainly dressed lady of middle age, passed directly in front of the two brothers, the girl with eyes demurely low ered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America written by Christopher Columbus and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain It will he hardly necessary to remind the reader that he cannot expect to meet in this work with that regular order and elaborate execution displayed in modern works upon kindred subjects. A book of voyages or travels at the present day is not thought likely to prove acceptable with the public, unless drawn up with a lucid and methodical arrangement of matter, and a proper display of taste and care in the language. The authors of these writings never lose sight of the fact, or rather make it their sole contemplation, that the productions Of their industry will be judged of in the light Of literary performances, and this consideration demands from them the exercise of a judge ment and skill in the disposition of their matter, and se lection of their language, which it would be both vain and unreasonable to look for in a performance like the follow ing. Nothing was probably farther from the intentions or thoughts of Columbus and his transcriber in executing this volume, than to make a book and nothing could be per formed with a more settled disregard of the idea. Colum bus describes the objects which he saw, and the events which occurred from day to day, without essaying to give his narrative any greater portion of method or regularity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Columbus Or the Discovery of America written by Joachim Heinrich Campe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Columbus, or the Discovery of America: As Related by a Father to His Children, and Designed for the Instruction of Youth Charlotte in a few minutes returned with her mother; when the whole party being plac cd, the father, after a short pause, addressing them said, Well, ' my children, whose history do you think I mean to relate? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Columbus Memorial Volume Classic Reprint written by Catholic Club of New York and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Columbus Memorial Volume But regard the figure of Columbus from another point Of view, and we are struck at once by his many modern traits, and impressed with the close connection between his career and the course of modern science. Convinced of the correctness of his cosmographic views, neither the coldness of patrons nor the opposition of the world shook him in his convictions. Time itself did not dampen his ardor to test by experiment his scientific opinions. Is not this the spirit of the modern investigator? Four times Columbus braved the perils of the sea, and trusted himself to men more treacher ous than the ocean, to prove the correctness of 1115 theories. Can modern science produce more brilliant examples of courage and perseverance? In his methods Columbus, while true to the mediaeval principle of authority, appealed to observation and fact as arguments of decisive importance. If, to support his theories that the extent of ocean between the west of Africa and the Indies was slight as compared with thevastness of the Old continent, he cited Aristotle and Averroes, Esdras and Seneca, and if he founded his scheme largely on the authority of Cardinal Pierre d'ailly, it is also true that, both at Porto Santo and at Lisbon, from his sailor relatives, and the most experienced mariners of the day, he gathered facts, indicating the existence of fertile inhabited lands to the westward. Again and again he dwelt on the fact that carved wood, strange trees, unknown species of reeds, nay, the corpses of two men unlike any race of the Old World, had drifted from the west to the Azores. How could he have anticipated more signally the methods of the modern explorer? How modern, too, was Columbus' manner of deal ing with a phenomenon that might well have struck earlier mariners as an ill-boding prodigy - the continuous variation of the magnetic needle on his first voyage. The Genoese sailor sought an explanation in science and made it the starting point of improved navigation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Story of Christopher Columbus for Little Children Classic Reprint written by Elizabeth Harrison and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Story of Christopher Columbus for Little Children He remembered in his readings of the book of Marco Polo's travels that the people whom he had met were heathen who knew little about the dear God who had made the world, and nothing at all about His son, Christ Jesus, and as Christopher Columbus loved very dearly the Christian religion, his mind became filled with a longing to carry it across the great seas to this far-away coun try. The more he thought about it the more he wanted to go, until his whole life was filled with the one thought of how to get hold of some ships to prove that the earth was round, and that these far-away heathens could be reached. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Columbus and His Times Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Columbus and His Times Prince Henry, whose knowledge and patron age had so greatly contributed to the results already secured. These, however, were not so great as might be supposed. During his life, the Portuguese, in their utmost progress towards the south, did not advance within five degrees of the equinoctial line; and after their continued exertions for half a century, hardly fifteen hundred miles of the African coast were discovered. Still the path was opened to far greater success. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Columbus Quincentennial Projects written by United States National Park Service and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Columbus Quincentennial Projects: A Directory The landing of Columbus and his men in the New World ushered in 500 years of events unparalleled in history. It led to the emigration of millions of people, and the development of our Nation. The legacy of that voyage is modern America, unique among the nations of the world. An Italian captain and Spanish crew, forever connecting the New World with the Old World, set the foundation for this diversity. Over the next 500 years countless voyages followed-by those seeking adventure, religious and political freedom, and a better life for themselves and their families. Whether our ancestors crossed that long lost land bridge connecting America with Asia, sailed on the Mayflower, or immigrated through Ellis Island or some other port of entry, all have contributed to the historic and cultural heritage of America. Even those who are new to America's shore are adding to the national experience. This is a time for all Americans to rejoice in the diversity of our Nation. For all that has transpired over the past 500 years, let us never lose sight of the fact that America represents the best hopes of mankind-freedom and opportunity. Let that be the legacy of christopher-columbus, and the crews of the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Once Upon a Time Or the Romantic Story of the Life of Christopher Columbus written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Once Upon a Time, or the Romantic Story of the Life of Christopher Columbus: An Original and Aboriginal Extravaganza Slumber on, baby dear, Never hear thy father sigh; Never mind the silent tear, While he sings thy lullaby. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
