Samuel Eliot Morison

Admiral of the Ocean Sea

A Life of Christopher Columbus

New York 199? [lata 90-te] - reprint wydania z 1942 roku

Stron XX+680, format: 16x24 cm

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WYBITNA PRACA O KOLUMBIE

Columbus has become a more contro­versial figure today than he was when Morison wrote this stirring and famous book, but even the explorer's critics do not deny his most remarkable qualities: his intrepidity, his boldness, his deter­mination, and his skill, not to mention his enormous historical importance. He is a man richly deserving a first-class biography, and in Admired of the Ocean Sea Morison provided us with one.
Not content merely to offer a dry recitation of the events and facts of Columbus' life, 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, Morison organized the Harvard Columbus Expedition, and began to map out his course. Every effort was made to duplicate the atmosphere and condi­tions encountered by Columbus, from the ships themselves to the methods of navigation. In the late summer of 1939, almost 450 years after Columbus's own historic voyages, Morison and 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 through his eyes, to feel the sea as he did. Columbus' journeys unfold before you with a trenchant commentary and vividness only made possible by the experience of a man who has traveled the same path. Historic observations involving weather patterns, birds and sea life, as well as the various lands and people that Columbus encoun­tered, are examined with a great depth of feeling by Morison.
If ever you sought to share the vision of a man who has forever left his mark on this world, you will find it in Admiral of the Ocean Sea. Come aboard and prepare for an exhilarating voyage across the sea and through time.
With the burning passion of an explorer and the scholarly knowledge of a historian, Samuel Eliot Morison brings to the page the amazing life of the father of the New World, Christopher Columbus. In a 147-foot schooner and a 47-foot ketch modeled after the Santa Maria and the Nina, Morison set out to taste the adventure of this intrepid explorer by repeating his voyage. This account of the life and journeys of Columbus is told with a vividness that can only be summoned from first hand experience. Together with charts and maps detailing Columbus' voyages, this uniquely satisfying work distills the motivations and experiences of the sailor who was, for better or worse, to change the world.
Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison was professor emeritus of history at Harvard University. He was the author of many other celebrated works of naval history, including The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War and the Pulitzer Prize-winning John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography.

Contents


Spanish Coins of Columbian Era xiv
Preface XV

THE FIRST FORTY YEARS
I Prologue 3
II Genoa 7
III Cheerfully at Sea 18
IV Lusitania 27
V The Man Columbus 43
VI The Enterprise of the Indies 54
vII In Castile 79
VIII The Queen Consents 96
IX Xina, Pinta and Santa Maria 109
X Officers and Men 135

THE FIRST VOYAGE TO AMERICA
XI Bound Away 153
xII A Day at Sea 167
XIII How Columbus Navigated 183
XIV Atlantic Crossing 197
XV Adelante! Adelantef 211
XVI Landfall 222
XVII The Quest for Japan 237
xVITI Pursuit of the Grand Khan 254
XIX Oriente 267
XX La Isla Española 280
XXI La Navidad 297
XXII Homeward Passage 314
XXIII Azorean Agony 324
XXIV In Portuguese Power 336
XXV Home Is the Sailor 350
XXVI Diplomatic Interlude 360
XXVII Spreading the News 375

THE SECOND VOYAGE TO AMERICA
XXVIII The Grand Fleet 389
XXIX Many Marys 400
XXX Saints and Virgins 412
XXXI Cibao 430
XXXII Cuba and Jamaica 445
XXXIII The Queen's Garden 454
XXXIV Back to Isabela 469
XXXV Hell in Hispaniola 481
XXXVI Crowded Crossing 496

THE THIRD VOYAGE TO AMERICA
XXXVII Preparations 505
XXXVIII Trinidad 515
XXXIX Paria 532
XL Terrestrial Paradise 549
XLI Terrestrial Inferno 562

THE FOURTH VOYAGE TO AMERICA
XLII Last Chance 575
XLIII Hurricane 584
XLIV Search for a Strait 594
XLV Veragua 609
XLVI Belén 622
XLVII At Sea in a Sieve 633
XLVIII Marooned 640
XLIX Rescue and End 656
Index 673