ADMIRAL OF THE OCEAN SEA: A LIFE OF CHRISTPHER COLUMBUS [Hardcover] Morison, Samuel Eliot

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Not content merely to offer a dry recitation of the events & facts of Columbus’ life, Samuel Eliot Morison decided to embark on the bold adventure of navigating the sea in Columbus’ route, as far as it could be reconstructed. With the support of a number of enthusiastic colleagues, he organized the Harvard Columbus Expedition & began to map out his course. Every effort was made to duplicate the atmosphere & conditions encountered by Columbus, from the ships themselves to the methods of navigation. In the late summer of l939, almost 450 years after Columbus’s own historic voyages, Morison & crew set sail. The result was this Pulitzer Prize-winning account of Christopher Columbus–the man, the sailor, the father of the modern New World. You will have the opportunity to see as he did. Columbus’ journeys unfold before you with a trenchant commentary & vividness only made possible by the experience of a man who has traveled the same path. Historic observations involving weather patterns, birds & sea life, as well as the various lands & people that Columbus encountered, are examined with a great depth of feeling.