Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 0793336422
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
Christopher Columbus Comes to Delaware!
Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 0793336422
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 0793336422
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
Delaware's Unsolved Mysteries (& Their "Solutions")
Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 0793357446
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 0793357446
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Street Names of Philadelphia
Author: Robert I. Alotta
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Information covers entire Philadelphia county and city.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Information covers entire Philadelphia county and city.
The Log of Christopher Columbus
Author: Christopher Columbus
Publisher: International Marine Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
An introduction and epilogue give biographical details but the heart of this book is the actual log kept by Columbus from August 1492 to March 1493.
Publisher: International Marine Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
An introduction and epilogue give biographical details but the heart of this book is the actual log kept by Columbus from August 1492 to March 1493.
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
Author: Edward Wilson-Lee
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 1982111402
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This impeccably researched and “adventure-packed” (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus’s son to create the greatest library in the world is “the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters” (NPR) and offers a vivid picture of Europe on the verge of becoming modern. At the peak of the Age of Exploration, Hernando Colón sailed with his father Christopher Columbus on his final voyage to the New World, a journey that ended in disaster, bloody mutiny, and shipwreck. After Columbus’s death in 1506, eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continue—and surpass—his father’s campaign to explore the boundaries of the known world by building a library that would collect everything ever printed: a vast holding organized by summaries and catalogues; really, the first ever database for the exploding diversity of written matter as the printing press proliferated across Europe. Hernando traveled extensively and obsessively amassed his collection based on the groundbreaking conviction that a library of universal knowledge should include “all books, in all languages and on all subjects,” even material often dismissed: ballads, erotica, news pamphlets, almanacs, popular images, romances, fables. The loss of part of his collection to another maritime disaster in 1522, set off the final scramble to complete this sublime project, a race against time to realize a vision of near-impossible perfection. “Magnificent…a thrill on almost every page” (The New York Times Book Review), The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books is a window into sixteenth-century Europe’s information revolution, and a reflection of the passion and intrigues that lie beneath our own insatiable desires to bring order to the world today.
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 1982111402
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This impeccably researched and “adventure-packed” (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus’s son to create the greatest library in the world is “the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters” (NPR) and offers a vivid picture of Europe on the verge of becoming modern. At the peak of the Age of Exploration, Hernando Colón sailed with his father Christopher Columbus on his final voyage to the New World, a journey that ended in disaster, bloody mutiny, and shipwreck. After Columbus’s death in 1506, eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continue—and surpass—his father’s campaign to explore the boundaries of the known world by building a library that would collect everything ever printed: a vast holding organized by summaries and catalogues; really, the first ever database for the exploding diversity of written matter as the printing press proliferated across Europe. Hernando traveled extensively and obsessively amassed his collection based on the groundbreaking conviction that a library of universal knowledge should include “all books, in all languages and on all subjects,” even material often dismissed: ballads, erotica, news pamphlets, almanacs, popular images, romances, fables. The loss of part of his collection to another maritime disaster in 1522, set off the final scramble to complete this sublime project, a race against time to realize a vision of near-impossible perfection. “Magnificent…a thrill on almost every page” (The New York Times Book Review), The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books is a window into sixteenth-century Europe’s information revolution, and a reflection of the passion and intrigues that lie beneath our own insatiable desires to bring order to the world today.
The Vision of Columbus
Author: Joel Barlow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Rethinking Columbus
Author: Bill Bigelow
Publisher: Rethinking Schools
ISBN: 094296120X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Provides resources for teaching elementary and secondary school students about Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America.
Publisher: Rethinking Schools
ISBN: 094296120X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Provides resources for teaching elementary and secondary school students about Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America.
Mandatory or optional? : the truth about Medicaid : hearing before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, Washington, DC, June 28, 2005.
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1422333205
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1422333205
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Mandatory Or Optional?
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A History of Wine in America, Volume 1
Author: Thomas Pinney
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520254295
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
"Completely fascinating, Pinney's History of Wine in America combines a myriad of facts about all the states that have endeavored to grow grapes at any time since colonial days into a readable and coherent story. The only study to approach wine through its historical aspects, it will be invaluable to wine writers who want to include historical perspectives in their articles and it will be seized upon by grape growers and wineries throughout the country who want to discover their region's historical roots in viticulture and winemaking. A significant contribution to scholarship, this book should have broad appeal."—John R. McGrew, USDA Agricultural Research Service (retired)
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520254295
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
"Completely fascinating, Pinney's History of Wine in America combines a myriad of facts about all the states that have endeavored to grow grapes at any time since colonial days into a readable and coherent story. The only study to approach wine through its historical aspects, it will be invaluable to wine writers who want to include historical perspectives in their articles and it will be seized upon by grape growers and wineries throughout the country who want to discover their region's historical roots in viticulture and winemaking. A significant contribution to scholarship, this book should have broad appeal."—John R. McGrew, USDA Agricultural Research Service (retired)