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Admiral of the ocean sea : a life of Christopher Columbus /

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"A condensation of my two-volume Admiral of the ocean sea, published at the same time. All the notes have been omitted, and a good many pages of navigational data; a chapter on ships and sailing and one on the origin of syphilis have been summarized. Otherwise the two editions are identical.&qu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976
Corporate Author: Milwaukee Academy of Medicine. Book Collection
Other Authors: Raisz, Erwin, 1893-1968 (Cartographer), Greene, Bertram (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1942.
Subjects:
Columbus, Christopher.
Explorers > America > Biography.
Expeditions
America > Discovery and exploration > Spanish.
Colomb, Christophe, > approximately 1451-1506.
Explorers.
America.
Ontdekkingsreizen.
Columbus, Christopher > Life and voyages.
Explorers > Spain > Biography.
COLON, CRISTOBAL, > approximately 1451-1506.
Biographies.
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Summary:"A condensation of my two-volume Admiral of the ocean sea, published at the same time. All the notes have been omitted, and a good many pages of navigational data; a chapter on ships and sailing and one on the origin of syphilis have been summarized. Otherwise the two editions are identical."--Page xx.
Item Description:"An Atlantic Monthly Press Book."
Map on lining-papers.
"Salve regina" (words and melody): page [181].
From the estate of Sterling C. Evans, July 2003.
Physical Description:xx, 680 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps (some folded), portrait, charts ; 25 cm.
Awards:Listed in the H.W. Wilson Public Library Core Collection, 2008.
Pulitzer Prize for Biography, 1943.
Bibliography:Includes index.
Bibliographical references included in "Notes," at end of each chapter except the first.
ISBN:0930350375
9780930350376
0316584789
9780316584784