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The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Vol. II)
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By Washington Irving 26 Sep, 2019
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A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus is a biographical account of Christopher Columbus written by Washington Irving in 1828. It was published in four volumes in Britain and in three volumes in the United States. The work was the ... Read more
A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus is a biographical account of Christopher Columbus written by Washington Irving in 1828. It was published in four volumes in Britain and in three volumes in the United States. The work was the most popular biographical account of Columbus in the English-speaking world until the publication of Samuel Eliot Morison's biography Admiral of the Ocean Sea in 1942. It is one of the first examples of American historical fiction and one of several attempts at national myth-making undertaken by American writers and poets of the 19th century. It also helped to perpetuate the myth of the flat Earth. Less
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  • 978-1358632334
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Washington Irving was an American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century. He began his literary career at the age of nineteen by writing newspaper articles under the pseu...
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