Résultats pour "Christopher Columbus" dans Littérature et fiction

Admiral of the Ocean Sea is Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's classic biography of the greatest sailor of them all, Christopher Columbus. It is written with the insight, energy, and authority that only someone who had himself sailed in Columbus's path to the New World could muster. Morison undertook this expedition in a 147-foot schooner and a 47-foot ketch, the dimensions of these craft roughly matching those of Columbus's Santa Maria and Nina.

We were fighting on the wrong side of a war we couldn't win. And that was the good news. The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the native Americans in 1492. Over the horizon come ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There go the good old days, when humans only got killed by each other. So, Columbus Day. It fits. When the morning sky twinkled again, this time with Kristang starships jumping in to hammer the Ruhar, we thought we were saved.

Tomás Noronha - professor of History of the New University of Lisbon and expert in crypto-analysis and in ancient languages - has been hired by a prestigious American foundation to complete the investigation of an old historian who recently passed away. Among the findings is an enigmatic message that seems to be the key of those studies and that, according to the late historian, can change the course of known history.

As a special bonus, this audiobook download also includes a recording of the short story, The Admiral’s Mark, read by Scott Brick. He was called by many names—Columb, Colom, Colón—but we know him as Christopher Columbus. Many questions about him exist: Where was he born, raised, and...

A SonicReenactment of the reading of Christopher Columbus' famous letter to the king and queen of Spain. The letter outlines a plan of colonization for the "New World", the removal and transport of its gold to Spain, and the establishment of the Catholic church as an integral part of everyday life within the New World territories.

"F**k You, Christopher Columbus" Audio Comedy Produced by: Anthony Giambusso & Katie Cazorla Written by: Anthony Giambusso Featuring: Katie Cazorla as Adalese Swinton Jonathan Kite as Christopher Columbus Daphnique Springs Ariana Madix Tom Sandoval Bill Dawes Original music by: Walter Afanasieff Contact: FUchristophercolumbus@gmail.com

A family’s secret, a ruthless fanatic, and a covert arm of the American government—all are linked by a single puzzling possibility: What if everything we know about the discovery of America was a lie? What if that lie was designed to hide the secret of why Columbus sailed in 1492? And what...