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1492
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i.d.R. innert 7-14 Tagen versandfertig |
Veröffentlichung: |
Dezember 2005
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Genre: |
Soziologie |
ISBN: |
9781596056602 |
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9781596056602 |
Verlag: |
Cosimo Classics |
Einband: |
Kartoniert |
Sprache: |
English
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Dimensionen: |
H 203 mm / B 127 mm / D 19 mm |
Gewicht: |
391 gr |
Seiten: |
324 |
Zus. Info: |
Paperback |
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Inhalt: |
A strange light was around us, as though the tempest itself made a light. By it I marked the Admiral, upright where he could best command the whole. He had lashed himself there, for the ship tossed excessively. His great figure stood; his white, blowing hair, in that strange light, made for him a nimbus. It was strange, how the light seemed to seize that and his brow and his gray-blue eyes.... He looked what he was, something more than a bold man and a brave sea captain, and there streamed from him comfort. It touched his mariners; it came among them like tongues of flame.
-from Chapter XXXI
This 1922 book, published in England under the title Admiral of the Ocean-Sea, is a fictionalized account of Christopher Columbus's famous 1492 voyage, told from the point of view of one of his sailors, Jayme de Marchena, a Spanish Jew whose kabbalistic perspective lends the tale an air of mystery and mysticism.
A classic of historical fiction, it is a stirring adventure of exploration of the wide world and the inner soul.
MARY JOHNSTON (1870-1936) also wrote Lewis Rand, Pioneers of the Old South, and To Have and to Hold. |
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