Admiral of the ocean sea: A life of Christopher Columbus (The American past)
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (511 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0007HINAK |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 682 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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''A splendid achievement and a lasting monument of American scholarship. The style is delightful and flowing, and the whole work is replete with beauty and humor A supremely valuable contribution to the literature on Columbus.'' --New York Times
At various times he held teaching positions at Berkeley, Oxford, and Harvard. His Admiral of the Ocean Sea won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON, Rear Admiral, United States Naval Reserve (1887-1976), was an American historian noted for his works of history, especially maritime history, that were both authoritative and highly readable. . A sailor as
"Wow, so much better than taught in HS history." according to John Owens. If any of you would like to see the life of Columbus as it must have been will really like this book. I found that it is a book about his life and world, not just a biography. You start to get a feel for how different his world was and how much of history is made up by people because of our failure to see him as a navigator of life in "that" environment, not ours.I was amazed to find that Columbus truly felt that he had a divine commission and duty to voyage as he did, and much of the negativity I have heard from him now seems to be unsubstantiate. Don't buy this book; pages are missing. Could not finish the book. Pages were missing and the print quality was bad. Amazon quickly send a second copy of the book - which had the same bad print quality and was missing the same pages up to the point that I had read. Returned both books and did not ask for another.. M. Heiss said Worth my time. My quick summary of Morison's ColumbusPolitician -- uselessAdministrator -- dismalNavigator and Seaman -- heroicI tried to tackle this book in chunks, which made it much longer to read. But it gave me the time to really read it.Morison set out to resail the Columbus voyages in "Worth my time" according to M. Heiss. My quick summary of Morison's ColumbusPolitician -- uselessAdministrator -- dismalNavigator and Seaman -- heroicI tried to tackle this book in chunks, which made it much longer to read. But it gave me the time to really read it.Morison set out to resail the Columbus voyages in 2 boats very similar in draft (if not tonnage) to what Columbus used. He pinpointed the bays, harbors, and landfalls as described in Columbus's journals (and the letters and journals of others who sailed with COlumbus), and as a result, the book is entirely credible on the s. boats very similar in draft (if not tonnage) to what Columbus used. He pinpointed the bays, harbors, and landfalls as described in Columbus's journals (and the letters and journals of others who sailed with COlumbus), and as a result, the book is entirely credible on the s
This is Part 1 of a 2-part Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.Part 1 has 10 cassettesRead by Frederick Davidson*Winner of the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Biography*Admiral of the Ocean Sea is Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's classic biography of the greatest sailor of them all, Christopher Columbus. Morison undertook this expedition in a 147-foot schooner and a 47-foot ketch, the dimensions of these craft roughly matching those of Columbus' Santa Maria and Niña. The result is this vivid and definitive biography that accurately details the voyages that, for better or worse, changed the world.. It is written with the insight, energy, and authority that only someone who had himself sailed in Columbus' path to the New World could mus