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Author Dugard, Martin.

Title The last voyage of Columbus : being the epic tale of the great captain's fourth expedition, including accounts of swordfight, mutiny, shipwreck, gold, war, hurricane, and discovery / Martin Dugard.

Imprint New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2005.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 FSCC Non-Fiction  970.01 D8784t 2005    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 294 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Note Maps on lining papers.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-280) and index.
Contents In chains -- [Pt. 1] Love and hope and sex and dreams. The voyage the whole world remembers ; The passage ; Good taste ; Power ; In which Ferdinand and Isabella realize their great mistake ; The unexpected Portuguese triumph ; Mouth of the serpent ; In the shape of a woman's breast ; Bishop and pawns -- [Pt. 2] Paradise lost. The administrator ; Tears of rage ; Shipping out ; The crossing -- [Pt. 3] Adventures of a perilous and swashbuckling nature ; The unknown ; Mosquito ; Ojeda, again ; Shipworms -- [Pt. 4] War. Dark December ; Caribbean sprint ; Barely afloat -- [Pt. 5] Cast away. Columbus's new world ; Open boat ; The Porras conspiracy ; Civil war.
Summary An account of Columbus's fourth and final voyage describes the aging captain's determination to find a passage to the Orient, recounting how his efforts where challenged by shipwreck, mutiny, and political treachery.
Subject Columbus, Christopher -- Travel -- America.
America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish.
Explorers -- America -- Biography.
Explorers -- Spain -- Biography.
ISBN 0316828831
9780316828833
Standard No. YDXCP 2168347
NZ1 8929490
AU@ 000026335075
DEBBG BV019839725

 
    
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