Title |
Columbus and the world around him
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Names |
Meltzer, Milton.
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Book Number |
BR008496
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Title Status |
Active
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Medium |
Braille
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Download Link |
Volume 1.
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Annotation |
Meltzer, in this meticulously researched account, moves beyond Columbus's skills as a navigator to paint a picture of an arrogant, obsessive dreamer. Driven by greed for wealth and power and by a dubious interest in converting "the heathens," Columbus, like his comtemporaries, saw non-Europeans as inferior being ripe for enslavement, and their lands ripe for European exploitation. For grades 6-9 and older readers.
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Local Subject |
Juvenile Book - JU
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Juvenile Non-Fiction - JN
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History, United States - HUS
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Young Adult Book - YA
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Short Book - SH
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Biography & Autobiography - BIO
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Young Adult Non-Fiction - YN
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History - HST
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History - Modern World - HWO
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Audience Notes |
For grades 6-9.
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LC Subject |
Explorers - America - Biography - Juvenile literature
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Explorers - Spain - Biography - Juvenile literature
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America - Discovery and exploration - Spanish - Juvenile literature
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Call Number |
j970.015 B JNF
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Language |
English
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Released |
1990
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Publication Info |
Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, 1990 (Triformation Braille Service, transcribing agency. Triformation Braille Service, distributor)
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Original Publication |
Transcription of: New York : F. Watts, 1990.
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