Columbus_ The Four Voyages - Laurence Bergreen [0]
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
PART ONE - Discovery
CHAPTER 1 - Thirty-three Days
CHAPTER 2 - Son of Genoa
CHAPTER 3 - Shipwreck
CHAPTER 4 - “The People from the Sky”
PART TWO - Conquest
CHAPTER 5 - River of Blood
CHAPTER 6 - Rebellion
CHAPTER 7 - Among the Taínos
INTERLUDE - The Columbian Exchange
PART THREE - Decadence
CHAPTER 8 - “A Great Roaring”
CHAPTER 9 - Roldán’s Revolt
CHAPTER 10 - “Send Me Back in Chains”
PART FOUR - Recovery
CHAPTER 11 - El Alto Viaje
CHAPTER 12 - Castaways in Paradise
CHAPTER 13 - February 29, 1504
EPILOGUE
Acknowledgements
NOTES ON SOURCES
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
ALSO BY LAURENCE BERGREEN
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VIKING
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Bergreen, Laurence.
Columbus : the four voyages / Laurence Bergreen.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN : 978-1-101-54432-7
E118.B47 2011
970.01’5092—dc22 2011013900
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TO MY MOTHER
and
IN MEMORY OF MY FATHER AND BROTHER
A BATTER’D, wreck’d old man,
Thrown on this savage shore, far, far from home,
Pent by the sea, and dark rebellious brows, twelve dreary months,
Sore, stiff with many toils, sicken’d, and nigh to death,
I take my way along the island’s edge,
Venting a heavy heart. . . .
Steersman unseen! henceforth the helms are Thine;
Take Thou command—(what to my petty skill Thy navigation?)
My hands, my limbs grow nerveless;
My brain feels rack’d, bewilder’d; Let the old timbers part—I will not
part!
I will cling fast to Thee, O God, though the waves buffet me;
Thee, Thee, at least, I know.
Is it the prophet’s thought I speak, or am I raving?
What do I know of life? what of myself?