Nonfiction · 1891
The Life of Columbus
From His Own Letters and Journals and Other Documents of His Time
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Contents
- Preface
- Chapter XIII
- Chapter I — Early Life of Columbus
- Chapter II — His Plans for Discovery
- Chapter III — The Great Voyage
- Chapter IV — The Landing on the Twelfth of October
- Chapter V — Landing on Cuba
- Chapter VI — Discovery of Hayti or Hispaniola
- Chapter VII — Columbus Is Called to Meet the King and Queen
- Chapter VIII — The Second Expedition Sails
- Chapter IX — The New Colony
- Chapter X — The Third Voyage
- Chapter XI — Spain, 1500, 1501
- Chapter XII — Fourth Voyage
- Chapter XIII — Two Sad Years
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1822–1909 · Victorian
Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909) was born in Boston into a prominent New England family — his great-uncle was Revolutionary War martyr Nathan Hale — and was ordained as a Unitarian minister, serving Boston-area congregations for most of his career while writing prolifically on the side. He is best remembered for "The Man Without a Country" (1863), a patriotic Civil War-era short story about an army officer sentenced never to hear his own country's name again, published anonymously to bolster Union sentiment and widely believed true by many contemporary readers; "The Brick Moon" (1869), an early work of science fiction imagining an artificial satellite built to aid navigation, anticipated the idea by nearly a century. A committed social reformer, he was elected chaplain of the United States Senate in 1903. He died in Roxbury, Massachusetts, at eighty-seven.
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