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Redburn: His First Voyage [1] is the fourth book by the American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1849. The book is semi-autobiographical and recounts the adventures of a refined youth among coarse and brutal sailors and the seedier areas of Liverpool. Melville wrote Redburn in less than ten weeks.
A letter written by Christopher Columbus on February 15, 1493, is the first known document announcing the completion of his first voyage across the Atlantic, which set out in 1492 and reached the Americas. The letter was ostensibly written by Columbus himself, aboard the caravel Niña, on the return leg of his voyage. [2]
Charles Wilkins Webber was a well-known author. He married in Boston in 1849. His wife was his artistic collaborator, and together they worked on his first book titled, “The Hunter Naturalist,” which was published in 1851. He and his wife joined William Walker in Nicaragua. Webber fought in a battle in Masaya, Nicaragua.
Juan Niño, the oldest of the brothers, [7] was master and owner of the caravel La Niña on Columbus's first voyage. [3] Upon their return, he accompanied Columbus to Barcelona [8] after staying several days at home in Moguer. He was also on the crew of the second and third voyages of Columbus. With his brother Pedro Alonso he traveled to the ...
[1] [2] [3] The work was the most popular treatment of Columbus in the English-speaking world until the publication of Samuel Eliot Morison's biography Admiral of the Ocean Sea in 1942. [3] It is one of the first examples of American historical fiction and one of several attempts at nationalistic myth-making undertaken by American writers and ...
Columbus's vow (Spanish: El Voto colombino) was a vow by Christopher Columbus and other members of the crew of the caravel Niña on 14 February 1493, during the return trip of Columbus's first voyage to perform certain acts, including pilgrimages, upon their return to Spain. The vow was taken at Columbus's behest during a severe storm at sea.
The Pinzón brothers were Spanish sailors, pirates, explorers and fishermen, natives of Palos de la Frontera, Huelva, Spain. Martín Alonso, Francisco Martín and Vicente Yáñez, participated in Christopher Columbus's first expedition to the New World [1] (generally considered to constitute the discovery of the Americas by Europeans) and in other voyages of discovery and exploration in the ...
Thompson also portrays Darwin as more racist in the modern sense than Fitzroy, again by shuffling his deck of facts.” She concluded that “This Thing of Darkness is two sorts of book: a superior adventure story and a polemic. One can enjoy the former considerably while noting that the manners of the latter are wanting.” [5]