Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrote Samuel Eliot Morison, last year, of the magnificent second voyage of Christopher Columbus. Of that passage from the shores of the old world to the shores of the new, there is not much known; it had little of the romance of the first, and not much of its terror and hardship. It came at a time when the Admiral was at the height of his fortunes: his fleet was big and well-equipped (although his flagship La Capitana, nicknamed La Galante by the sailors, was so slow that it held up the others) and the weather was fine...
...debunker of great men and great legends is Historian Morison. Nor does he believe that the sweep and play of economic forces determine the major course of history. He was profoundly skeptical of biographies that presented Columbus as a fraud, a promoter, an exploiter of the achievements of others-especially, when he learned that the authors of such books, no matter how skillfully they could find their way around the archives, had no knowledge of the sea. Last fall Professor Morison set out to test his own generous and idealistic picture of the great Discoverer, by sailing...