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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.
The Niño Brothers were a family of sailors and conquistadors from the town of Moguer at the end of the 15th century (in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain), who participated actively in Christopher Columbus's first voyage—generally considered to constitute the discovery of the Americas by Europeans—and other subsequent voyages to the New World.
This is the first book of Baker's The Company series, all of which involve time travel. 1997 Making History: Stephen Fry: Two men in the present attempt to prevent the birth of Adolf Hitler. 1997 To Say Nothing of the Dog: Connie Willis: A comedy in which historians travel back in time to find an artifact for a wealthy woman.
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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]
First US edition (publ. Harper and Brothers) A Group of Noble Dames is an 1891 collection of short stories written by English author Thomas Hardy. The stories are contained by a frame narrative in which ten members of a club each tell one story about a noble dame in the 17th or 18th century. Hardy included this work with his "Romances and ...
In the company of brothers Luis and Cristóbal de la Guerra, respectively a rich merchant and a pilot, he left San Lucas in May 1499, and, after twenty-three days, they arrived at Maracapana. Visiting the islands of Isla Margarita , Coche , and Cubagua , they exchanged objects of little value for a large number of pearls before sailing up the ...
He sailed with Christopher Columbus on his first voyage to the New World in 1492, as captain of the Pinta. [7] His youngest brother Vicente Yáñez Pinzón was captain of the Niña , and the middle brother Francisco Martín Pinzón was maestre (first mate) of the Pinta .