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Life and Voyages of Christophor Columbus

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Modern views of Columbus are overshadowed by guilt about past conquests. Credit for discovering the New World, we are told, belongs to its original inhabitants rather than any European, and Columbus gave those inhabitants nothing apart from death, disease and destruction. Yet for the Old World of Europe the four voyages of Columbus brought revelation where before there had been only myths and guesswork. People had thought it was only the great distance that made it impossible to reach Asia...

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Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
ISBN: 978-1-84022-069-8

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