Author:Christopher Columbus

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Christopher Columbus (1451–1506)

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Spanish navigator, colonizer and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere; among his writings are several journals and letters detailing his voyages

Christopher Columbus

Works

• Writings of Christopher Columbus: descriptive of the discovery and occupation of the new world, edited by Paul Leicester Ford, New York: 1892. (external scan)
• The journal of Christopher Columbus (during his first voyage, 1492-93) and documents relating the voyages of John Cabot and Gaspar Corte Real, edited by Clements Robert Markham, London: 1893. (external scan)
• The authentic letters of Columbus, edited and translated by William Eleroy Curtis, Chicago: 1895. (external scan)

Works about Columbus

• "Columbus, Christopher," by James Grant Wilson in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
• "Columbus, Christopher," by George Parker Winship in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Columbus, Christopher," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Columbus, Christopher," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Columbus", a poem by Florence Earle Coates
• Christopher Columbus by John Stevens Cabot Abbott
• The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Washington Irving
• Christopher Columbus: His Life and His Work by Charles Kendall Adams
• Christopher Columbus: His Portraits and His Monuments by William Eleroy Curtis
• Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery by Filson Young
• Christopher Columbus: A Monograph on his True Burial Place by Sir Travers Twiss
• The true story of Christopher Columbus, called the Great Admiral by Elbridge Streeter Brooks