Title |
Toward the setting sun Columbus, Cabot, Vespucci, and the race for America
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Names |
Boyle, David.
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Book Number |
DB070104
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Title Status |
Active
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Medium |
Digital Book
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Download Link |
Downloadable talking book.
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Annotation |
British historian chronicles the collaborations among fifteenth-century Italian merchant-explorers Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, and Amerigo Vespucci as they pursued profitable ventures after the Ottoman Empire took over eastern routes. Details the explorers' involvement with the slave trade and their search for alternative routes to the Indies and China. Violence. 2008.
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Narrator |
Sams, Robert.
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Local Subject |
History, United States - HUS
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History - HST
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Adult Book - AD
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Adult Non-Fiction - AN
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History - Modern World - HWO
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Short Book - SH
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Audience Notes |
Male narrator.
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Contains violence.
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LC Subject |
Explorers - America - Biography
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Explorers - America - History
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Explorers - Europe - Biography
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Explorers - Europe - History
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America - Discovery and exploration - European
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Call Number |
970.015 ANF
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Language |
English
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Released |
2008
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Publication Info |
Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 2008 (Potomac Talking Book Services, recording studio).
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Original Publication |
Recorded from: New York : Walker & Co., 2008. 0802716512
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