Columbus on Himself - Folio Society edition

Columbus on Himself

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Columbus on Himself - Folio Society edition
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Columbus on Himself

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Edition year 1992
Binding Cloth
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 284
Dimensions 25 × 16.1 cm

Edition details

Columbus on Himself by Felipe Fernández-Armesto, with twelve pages of colour plates and ten leaves of monochrome plates showing contemporary documents, paintings, woodcuts, etchings and maps. Full white cloth with a contemporary map in colour, dark green endleaves. Pale yellow slipcase. 25 x 16.1 cm. 284 pp

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Columbus on Himself presents Christopher Columbus through his own writings, including letters, journals and accounts connected with his voyages across the Atlantic. These documents provide direct insight into his ambitions, religious beliefs and interpretation of the lands and peoples he encountered. They also reveal the assumptions and objectives that shaped early European expansion in the Americas, making the book an important primary-source perspective on one of the most consequential periods in world history.

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