Select letters of Christopher Columbus
This volume, edited and translated by Richard Henry Major for the Hakluyt Society, gathers letters and documents relating to the four voyages of Christopher Columbus. It opens with Columbus's famous letter announcing his first discoveries, addressed to Luis de Santangel, and continues with accounts of the later voyages, including Columbus's own reports to Ferdinand and Isabella on the third and fourth, when his fortunes collapsed and he wrote from shipwreck and disgrace. Each text is given in the original Spanish or Latin with an English translation, and Major's introduction discusses the sources, the landfall question and early maps. Read together, the documents show ambition, wonder and bitterness in Columbus's own words. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first letters are free.
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Yes. Select letters of Christopher Columbus by Christopher Columbus is a public-domain work, here in the translation by Richard Henry Major. Vinteuil offers a carefully prepared digital edition made for comfortable reading on screen.
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