The Life And Voyages Of Americus Vespucius From Whom America Derived Its Name
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: Andrew Foster |
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: 1849 |
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: OCLC:916598513 |
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: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life and Voyages of Americus Vespucius; (from Whom America Derived Its Name.) by : Andrew Foster
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: Charles Edwards Lester |
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: New York : Baker & Scribner |
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: 488 |
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: 1846 |
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: STANFORD:36105024613957 |
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: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life and Voyages of Americus Vespucius by : Charles Edwards Lester
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: Charles Edwards Lester |
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: 476 |
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: 1858 |
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: WISC:89100043777 |
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: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life of Americus Vespucius by : Charles Edwards Lester
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: Charles Edwards LESTER (and FOSTER (Andrew)) |
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Total Pages |
: 474 |
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: 1846 |
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: BL:A0020856324 |
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: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life and Voyages of Americus Vespucius; with Illustrations Concerning the Navigator, and the Discovery of the New World by : Charles Edwards LESTER (and FOSTER (Andrew))
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: Charles Edwards Lester |
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: 516 |
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: 1856 |
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: NYPL:33433081689030 |
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: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life and Voyage of Americus Vespucius, with Illustrations Concerning the Navigator and the Discovery of the New World ... by : Charles Edwards Lester
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: Felipe Fernández-Armesto |
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: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
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: 2008-12-18 |
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: 9780307512550 |
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: 030751255X |
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: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Amerigo by : Felipe Fernández-Armesto
In 1507, European cartographers were struggling to redraw their maps of the world and to name the newly found lands of the Western Hemisphere. The name they settled on: America, after Amerigo Vespucci, an obscure Florentine explorer. In Amerigo, the award-winning scholar Felipe Fernández-Armesto answers the question “What’s in a name?” by delivering a rousing flesh-and-blood narrative of the life and times of Amerigo Vespucci. Here we meet Amerigo as he really was: a sometime slaver and small-time jewel trader; a contemporary, confidant, and rival of Columbus; an amateur sorcerer who attained fame and honor by dint of a series of disastrous failures and equally grand self-reinventions. Filled with well-informed insights and amazing anecdotes, this magisterial and compulsively readable account sweeps readers from Medicean Florence to the Sevillian court of Ferdinand and Isabella, then across the Atlantic of Columbus to the brave New World where fortune favored the bold. Amerigo Vespucci emerges from these pages as an irresistible avatar for the age of exploration–and as a man of genuine achievement as a voyager and chronicler of discovery. A product of the Florentine Renaissance, Amerigo in many ways was like his native Florence at the turn of the sixteenth century: fast-paced, flashy, competitive, acquisitive, and violent. His ability to sell himself–evident now, 500 years later, as an entire hemisphere that he did not “discover” bears his name–was legendary. But as Fernández-Armesto ably demonstrates, there was indeed some fire to go with all the smoke: In addition to being a relentless salesman and possibly a ruthless appropriator of other people’s efforts, Amerigo was foremost a person of unique abilities, courage, and cunning. And now, in Amerigo, this mercurial and elusive figure finally has a biography to do full justice to both the man and his remarkable era. “A dazzling new biography . . . an elegant tale.” –Publishers Weekly (starred review) “An outstanding historian of Atlantic exploration, Fernández-Armesto delves into the oddities of cultural transmission that attached the name America to the continents discovered in the 1490s. Most know that it honors Amerigo Vespucci, whom the author introduces as an amazing Renaissance character independent of his name’s fame–and does Fernández-Armesto ever deliver.” –Booklist (starred review)
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: Charles Edwards Lester |
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: 470 |
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: 1886 |
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: OCLC:70361377 |
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: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life and Voyages of Discovery of Americus Vespucius, After Whom the Western Half of the World was Named by : Charles Edwards Lester
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: Charles Edwards Lester |
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: Palala Press |
Total Pages |
: 470 |
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: 2018-02-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1378581520 |
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: 9781378581520 |
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: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life and Voyages of Americus Vespucius: With Illustrations Concerning the Navigator, and the Discovery of the New World by : Charles Edwards Lester
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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: Charles Edwards Lester |
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Total Pages |
: 431 |
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: 1853 |
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: LCCN:03032945 |
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: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life and Voyages of Americus Vespucius by : Charles Edwards Lester
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: Andrew Foster |
Publisher |
: Wentworth Press |
Total Pages |
: 372 |
Release |
: 2016-08-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1371142475 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781371142476 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis LIFE & VOYAGES OF AMERICUS VES by : Andrew Foster
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.