Christopher Columbus and the Portuguese, 1476-1498
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Christopher Columbus and the Portuguese, 1476-1498
By (Author) Rebecca Catz
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
21st September 1993
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Geographical discovery and exploration
European history: medieval period, middle ages
History of other geographical groupings and regions
946.902092
Physical Properties
Hardback
144
Description
Although much has been written about Columbus's life in Italy and Spain, little has been written about his formative years in Portugal. This work is the first book-length analysis of Columbus's stay in Portugal and Madeira from 1476 to 1485 and his later experiences in the Portuguese islands of the Azores and the Madeiras. The work stresses the influence the Portuguese had in educating Columbus about the sea, and it depicts his famous voyage to the New World as a logical sequence of the pioneering voyages of the Portuguese in the North Atlantic and along the West Coast of Africa. The work attempts to sort legend from fact and debunks the many myths about Columbus's stays on the island of Madeira.
Author Bio
REBECCA CATZ is Research Associate at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of California-Los Angeles. Her most recent book is The Travels of Mendes Pinto (1989).
