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An interesting book about the history of Christopher Columbus as believed in 1926. Appears to have been written for the 3rd - 4th grade reader studying the early explorers. The 17 chapter titles are: Marco Polo springs a surprise, The prince who was never discouraged, Christopher Columbus, The cloud's silver lining, Columbus picks his ships, Old-Time legends, Land Ho!, What happened ashore, Hunting for gold, The east and what it held, The home-coming, What Columbus's discoveries meant, The second voyage, The third voyage, Afterward, Columbus's successors. The nine (9) detailed b&w sketch illustrations are: The Santa Maria, Christopher - the Boy, Christopher and His Brother Study Navigation, Columbus Before Ferdinand & Isabella, Approaching the New World, Columbus is Cast Into a Dungeon, and The Last Days of Columbus. This has been an easy read and an interesting and captivating book that I've used to help my children understand Christopher Columbus's role, as it was previously believed to be, in discovering the New World.
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Columbus, Early Explorers, American History, New World, Ferdinand and Isabella, Christopher ColumbusTimes
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How would you have liked to sail to America with Christopher Columbus in 1492?
Imagine yourself crossing the Atlantic in an open boat or one with only a small, stuffy cabin and taking two months to do it. And then to make matters worse, add the fact that nobody aboard the ships was sure when land would be sighted or whether it would be seen at all. When one has no idea how long his courage must hold out it is always harder to keep it up. Moreover, Columbus and his crew, accustomed to the warm sunshine and fair blue skies of Spain, were strangers to the gray bleakness of the Atlantic and shivered with cold.
Nor had it been easy for the three small vessels to carry provisions or water enough for such a long voyage. The food you may be sure became scarce and unappetizing before a landing was made; and the men aboard ship became pretty tired of one another's company. They were hungry, cold and frightened, and many of them, grown men though they were, cried to be taken home.
Perhaps you might have done the same had you been there - perhaps I might. The ocean is an awesome place and even a gallant liner seems small when set down in the midst of it.
Only a few maps existed and those were faultily drawn. Having only a meager knowledge of the world, how could anyone be expected to make pictures of it? Those who tried, drew the countries they lived in and knew about; and such lands as they did not know about they either sketched according to what travelers had told them or filled in as imagination suggested. Even at best map making was not often attempted.
Those who went to sea drew their own charts and the correctness of them depended almost entirely on how intelligent the artist was and how well he could draw; and since no two sailors called the bays, islands or rivers by the same names, such drawings, as you can well understand, frequently confused more than they helped.
This excerpt is taken from the 1st three pages of the book. It starts the story and gives an idea of how it is written and what audience it may be written for.
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