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Return of the tall ships to the Mersey : Grand Regatta
Columbus
1992, 12th-16th August
Honorary and Executive Committees, Mersey 1992
1992 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.
92Columbus
Christopher
Columbus
and the enterprise of the Indies : a brief history with documents /Geoffrey Simcox
A general introduction to Christopher Columbus' life and voyages, followed by a series of documents. These include excerpts from the log of his first voyage, his agreements with the Spanish crown, papal bulls concerning the colonial empires of Spain and Portugal, and judgments by contemporaries on Columbus and his achievements.
2005. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
910.4(7/8)
The mysterious history of
Columbus
: an exploration of the man, the myth, the legacy
Wilford, John Noble
1991 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
910.4(7)"1492/1504"
The geographical conceptions of
Columbus
: a critical consideration of four problems / Nunn, George E
Nunn, George E
1992 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92Columbus
Biographical conversations, on the most eminent voyagers, of different nations : from
Columbus
to Cook
Bingley, William
1818 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
094:910.4
Piri Reis & Turkish mapmaking after
Columbus
: the Khalili Portolan atlas /by Svat Soucek.
Soucek, Svatopluk.
c1992. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
912.43(560)
A history of Jamaica : from its discovery by Christopher
Columbus
to the year 1872 ...
Gardner, W J
1971 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
972.92
Where exactly did
Columbus
land in the New World? : on course to fathom a mystery of the sea
Booth, Nick
1991 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.
92Columbus
An account of the most remarkable voyages, from the discovery of America by
Columbus
, to the present
1831 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
094:910.4
The discovery of mankind : Atlantic encounters in the age of
Columbus
/David Abulafia.
"Emphasizing contact between peoples rather than the discovery of lands, and using archaeological findings as well as eye-witness accounts, David Abulafia explores the social lives of the inhabitants of the Atlantic World, the motivations and tensions of the first transactions and the swift transmutation of wonder to vicious exploitation. Lucid, readable and scrupulous, this is a work of humane engagement with a period in which a tragically violent standard was set for European conquest of the world."--Jacket.
2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
910.4(261)"14/16"
Empire's crossroads : a history of the Caribbean from
Columbus
to the present day /Carrie Gibson.
"Ever since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected fantasies and competition between world powers. In Empire's Crossroads, British American historian Carrie Gibson offers a vivid, panoramic view of this complex region and its rich, important history. After that fateful landing in 1492, the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, and even the Swedes, Scots, and Germans sought their fortunes in the islands for the next two centuries. Gibson opens with these fraught years of discovery and settlement, which gave way to a booming age of sugar, horrendous slavery, and extravagant wealth, and in turn the Haitian Revolution and the long struggles for independence that ushered in the modern era. From Cuba to Haiti, from Jamaica to Trinidad, the story of the Caribbean is not simply the story of slaves and masters, but of fortune seekers, pirates, scientists, and tourists. Gibson tells not only of imperial expansion-European and American-but also of life as it is lived in the islands, from before Columbus through the tumultuous twentieth century. Evocatively written, Empire's Crossroads reinterprets five centuries of history that have been underappreciated for far too long."--Provided by the publisher.
2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
972.9
Christopher
Columbus
, cosmographer : a history of metrology, geodesy, geography and exploration from
Kravath, Fred F
1987 • FOLIO • 1 copy available.
91
Leeven en daden der doorluchtige zee-helden en ontdeckers van landen ... beginnende met Christoffel
Columbus
B, V D
1676 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available.
656.61:094:92
History of the Island of St Domingo : from its first discovery by
Columbus
to the present period
Barskett, James, Sir
1972 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
972.94
Christopher
Columbus
: being the life of the very magnificent lord Don Cristobal Colon
de Madariaga, Salvador
1939 • BOOK • 3 copies available.
910.4(72)"14/15"
The voyages of Christopher
Columbus
: being the journals of his first and third and the letters concerning
Columbus, Christopher
1930 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
910.4(7)"1492/1504"
Columbus
in Italy : an Italian versification of the letter on the discovery of the new world : with facsimiles
Davies, Martin (tr, int)
1991 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92Dati
A critical study of the various dates assigned to the birth of Christopher
Columbus
: the real date 1451
Vignaud, Henry
1903 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92Columbus
The life and voyages of Christopher
Columbus
: together with the voyages of his companions.
Irving, Washington
1849 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available.
094:92Columbus
The bibliography of the first letter of Christopher
Columbus
describing his discovery of the New World
Major, R H
1971 • BOOK • 2 copies available.
012Columbus
The catalogue of shipwrecked books : young
Columbus
and the quest for a universal library /Edward Wilson-Lee
"Without libraries, what have we? We have no past and no future. This book tells for the first time in English the story of the first great universal library in the age of printing - and of the son of Christopher Columbus who created it. This is the scarcely believable and wholly true story of Christopher Columbus' bastard son Hernando, who sought to equal and surpass his father's achievements by creating a universal library. His father sailed across the ocean to explore the known boundaries of the world for the glory of God, Spain and himself. His son Hernando sought instead to harness the vast powers of the new printing presses to assemble the world's knowledge in one place, his library in Seville. Hernando was one of the first and greatest visionaries of the print age, someone who saw how the scale of available information would entirely change the landscape of thought and society. His was an immensely eventual life. As a youth, he spent years travelling in the New World, and spent one living with his father in a shipwreck off Jamaica. He created a dictionary and a geographical encyclopaedia of Spain, helped to create the first modern maps of the world, spent time in almost every major European capital, and associated with many of the great people of his day, from Ferdinand and Isabel to Erasmus, Thomas More, and Drer. He wrote the first biography of his father, almost single-handedly creating the legend of Columbus that held sway for many hundreds of years, and was highly influential in crafting how Europe saw the world his father reached in 1492. He also amassed the largest collection of printed images and of printed music of the age, started what was perhaps Europe's first botanical garden, and created by far the greatest private library Europe had ever seen, dwarfing with its 15,000 books every other library of the day. Edward Wilson-Lee has written the first major modern biography of Hernando and the first of any kind available in English. In a work of dazzling scholarship, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books tells an enthralling tale of the age of print and exploration, a story with striking lessons for our own modern experiences of information revolution and Globalisation."--Provided by publisher.
2018. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
92COLON
Before
Columbus
: exploration and colonisation from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1229-1492 /Felipe
Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe
1987 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
325.3(4-015)
Visitors to ancient America : the evidence for European and Asian presence in America prior to
Columbus
McNeil, William F.
2005. • BOOK • 1 copy available.
910.4(4/5:7)"652/653"
comprising the latest known accounts of the lost colony of Greenland, and of the Northmen in America before
Columbus
Zeno, Nicolo
1873 • BOOK • 1 copy available.
910.4(491)"138"
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