| Christopher Columbus Explorer (1451 — 20-May-1506) SUBJECT OF BOOKS
David Boyle. Toward the Setting Sun: Columbus, Cabot, Vespucci, and the Race for America. New York: Walker & Co.. 2008. 421pp. Martin Dugard. The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition. New York: Little, Brown and Co.. 2005. 294pp. Washington Irving. A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. New York: G. & C. Carvill. 1828. (3 vols.) 399pp. + 367pp. + 420pp. Samuel Eliot Morison. Admiral of the Ocean: A Life of Christopher Columbus. Boston: Little, Brown. 1944. Samuel Eliot Morison. Christopher Columbus: Mariner. Boston: Little, Brown. 1955. Paolo Emilio Taviani. Christopher Columbus: The Grand Design. Orbis. 1985. 573pp.
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- NNDB [link]
- Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]
- Wikipedia [link]
- Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th Edition
- Encyclopedia of American Biography (p.224)
- Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.333)
- Webster's American Biographies (p.215)
- The Oxford Companion to American Literature, 5th Edition (p.155)
- Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.217)
- Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (p.62)
- Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.119)
- Concise Biographical Dictionary of Famous Men and Women (p.136)
- Who's Who in Europe, 1450-1750 (p.74)
- Legends in Their Own Time (p.53)
- The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.161)
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