Christopher Columbus: His Life and His Work

Christopher Columbus was a Spanish explorer credited for many years to have found the Americas. This biography illustrates his life as a Spanish conquistador and the genocide he enacted over the Native Americans. Contents: «Chapter I. Early Years. [1446–1484], Genoa,—Place of Birth,—Time of Birth,—Family,—Early Studies, —Early Maritime Experience, —Piratical Expeditions, —Voyage to Africa, —Voyage to Iceland, —Experience as Bookseller and Mapmaker, —Removal to Portugal, —Marriage, —Children, —Commercial Speculation, —Extent of his Experience, —Theory of the Sphericity of the Earth, —Progress of the Idea, —Cardinal d'Ailly's Imago Mundi, —Causes of Delay, —Discoveries by the Norsemen, —Toscanelli's Letters, —General Approaches to the Discovery, …»