America From Amerigo Vespucci To The Louisiana Purchase
DOWNLOAD
Download America From Amerigo Vespucci To The Louisiana Purchase PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get America From Amerigo Vespucci To The Louisiana Purchase book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
America From Amerigo Vespucci To The Louisiana Purchase
DOWNLOAD
Author : Pierpont Morgan Library
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
America From Amerigo Vespucci To The Louisiana Purchase written by Pierpont Morgan Library and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with America categories.
America From Amerigo Vespucci To The Louisiana Purchase
DOWNLOAD
Author : Pierpont Morgan Library
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
America From Amerigo Vespucci To The Louisiana Purchase written by Pierpont Morgan Library and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with categories.
America From Amerigo Vespucci To The Louisiana Purchase
DOWNLOAD
Author : Pierpont Morgan Library. New York, NY.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
America From Amerigo Vespucci To The Louisiana Purchase written by Pierpont Morgan Library. New York, NY. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with categories.
America From Amerigo Vespucci To The Louisiana Purchase An Exhibition At The Amon Carter Museum Fort Worth And The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library Austin From The Collections Of The Pierpont Morgan Library
DOWNLOAD
Author : Herbert Cahoon
language : en
Publisher: New York : Pierpont Morgan Library
Release Date : 1976
America From Amerigo Vespucci To The Louisiana Purchase An Exhibition At The Amon Carter Museum Fort Worth And The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library Austin From The Collections Of The Pierpont Morgan Library written by Herbert Cahoon and has been published by New York : Pierpont Morgan Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with America categories.
Amerigo Vespucci And The Naming Of America
DOWNLOAD
Author : FREDERICK A. OBER
language : en
Publisher: Blurb
Release Date : 2019-10-23
Amerigo Vespucci And The Naming Of America written by FREDERICK A. OBER and has been published by Blurb this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-23 with categories.
The continent of "America" is named not after Christopher Columbus, but rather his contemporary navigator and explorer, Amerigo Vespucci-and this book tells his story, and how his name came to be given to the New World. Drawing heavily upon Vespucci's own writings, this work provides a little-known insight into the background, voyages, discoveries and life of the Florence-born explorer, who ended his life as the "pilot navigator" of Spain. In that position-the most senior post in charge of mapping out the new world-Vespucci's genius was acknowledged across Europe, and the accuracy of his maps superseded all others. Vespucci not only mapped out vast areas of the New World, but also personally undertook at least four major voyages of discovery himself, working alternatively for the Spanish and Portuguese crowns. Never taking any personal credit or wealth, Vespucci's low-key approach meant that he was overshadowed by the more outgoing explorers of his age-men such as Columbus-yet, as his papers show, he knew them all and provided much valuable knowledge to all those who asked him. Finally, in a move which would have been as much a surprise to himself as anyone else, the continents of both North and South America were named after him-because of a strange quirk of history, described in full in this book.
Amerigo Vespucci
DOWNLOAD
Author : Charles Lester Edwards
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Amerigo Vespucci written by Charles Lester Edwards and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The biography of Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512), the Italian explorer whose discoveries led to the continent of America being named after him. Amerigo Vespucci made four voyages during which he discovered a lot of the coastline and rivers of South, Central and North America. The first of Amerigo's voyages has been disputed since he first described it, because it meant that Amerigo Vespucci had reached the mainland of America before Christopher Columbus. So instead of the continent of America being named after Columbus, it came to be named America after Amerigo. Often out of resentment at the lessening of Columbus's achievements, allegations have persisted for centuries that Amerigo or somebody else has either fabricated much of what was described of his voyages, or has been mistaken in what was written. Amerigo saw peoples, plants and animals never seen before by Europeans. His crew found the bird song so melodious, and the trees so beautiful and sweet smelling, that they imagined themselves in a terrestrial paradise. His voyages brought him in to contact with thousands of naked natives, who met with Amerigo's crew with anything from a warm and curious welcome to vicious warfare. He described some of the natives as being lascivious beyond measure, especially the women, and that the men took as many wives as they pleased, often marrying their mothers or their sisters. Amerigo wrote that the natives had neither laws nor religion. Many of them were cannibals, some of whom smoked the meat of their victims before eating it. Even some of Amerigo's own men were killed by being pulled to pieces, before being eaten in view of the rest of the crew. Included are all of the first hand accounts of the four voyages, detailed in letters written by Amerigo Vespucci to his friend Pietro Soderini who was Gonfaloniere of the Republic of Florence, and to Lorenzo di Piero Francesco de Medici, who was an Italian banker and politician.
Amerigo Vespucci
DOWNLOAD
Author : Heather Moore Niver
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2016-07-15
Amerigo Vespucci written by Heather Moore Niver and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Amerigo Vespucci, the presumed namesake of the continents of North America and South America, is a controversial figure in the history of European exploration. The number of voyages he took to the New World is in dispute, but among his accomplishments, he found a rough method of calculating longitude, made notes on the indigenous peoples he encountered, and published theories proving that Columbus had not landed in India. This volume separates the fact from fiction, the man from the myth, and sets about to responsibly examine the remaining open questions at the heart of this history of New World exploration.
This Country Of Ours
DOWNLOAD
Author : H. E. Marshall
language : en
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Release Date : 2021-01-01
This Country Of Ours written by H. E. Marshall and has been published by Prabhat Prakashan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-01 with History categories.
First published in the year 1917, the present book 'This Country of Ours' by American historian and writer H. E. Marshall is a book on the history of the United States. It begins with a full account of the English exploration and settlement of North America and ends with the presidency of Woodrow Wilson.
This Country Of Ours The Story Of The United States
DOWNLOAD
Author : Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2023-11-19
This Country Of Ours The Story Of The United States written by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-19 with History categories.
"This Country of Ours" is a collection of extraordinary stories from the history of the United States beginning with accounts of exploration and settlement and ending with the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. This is a book which when you lay it down will make you say, "I'm glad that I was born an American." Contents: Stories of Explorers and Pioneers How the Vikings of Old Sought and Found New Lands The Sea of Darkness and the Great Faith of Columbus How Columbus Fared Forth Upon the Sea of Darkness and Came to Pleasant Lands Beyond How Columbus Returned in Triumph How America Was Named How the Flag of England Was Planted on the Shores of the New World How the Flag of France Was Planted in Florida How the French Founded a Colony in Florida How the Spaniards Drove the French Out of Florida How a Frenchman Avenged the Death of His Countrymen The Adventures of Sir Humphrey Gilbert About Sir Walter Raleigh's Adventures in the Golden West Stories of Virginia The Adventures of Captain John Smith More Adventures of Captain John Smith How the Colony Was Saved How Pocahontas Took a Journey Over the Seas How the Redmen Fought Against Their White Brothers How Englishmen Fought a Duel With Tyranny The Coming of the Cavaliers Bacon's Rebellion The Story of the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe Stories of New England The Story of the Pilgrim Fathers The Founding of Massachusetts The Story of Harry Vane The Story of Anne Hutchinson and the Founding of Rhode Island The Founding of Harvard How Quakers First Came to New England How Maine and New Hampshire Were Founded The Founding of Connecticut and War With the Indians The Founding of New Haven The Hunt for the Regicides King Philip's War How the Charter of Connecticut Was Saved The Witches of Salem Stories of the Middle and Southern Colonies Stories of the French in America Stories of the Struggle for Liberty The Boston Tea-party Stories of the United States Under the Constitution
This Country Of Ours The Story Of The United States
DOWNLOAD
Author : H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2016-09-15
This Country Of Ours The Story Of The United States written by H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-15 with History categories.
A classic, comprehensive survey of pre-20th Century American history, H.E. Marshall's This Country of Ours: The Story of America is a treasure trove of information and essential reading for young historians.