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The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

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The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus is a novel about Christopher Columbus written by Washington Irving in 1828. While the book is often cited as a biography, it is primarily a work of fiction. In this book, Irving writes that the voyages of Columbus finally convinced Europeans of his time that the Earth is not flat. In truth, no educated or influential member of medieval society... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

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    The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

    The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus is a novel about Christopher Columbus written by Washington Irving in 1828. While the book is often cited as a biography, it is primarily a work of fiction.
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    Voyages of Christopher Columbus

    Washington Irving, A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Colombus, G. & C. Carvill, 1828 ... ↑ Philips and Philips, The Worlds of Christopher Columbus
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    Christopher Columbus

    Main article: Voyages of Christopher Columbus ... Morison, Samuel Eliot, Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus, Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1942.
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    1828 in literature

    Washington Irving - The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
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    Washington Irving

    The first offspring of this hard work, The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, was published in January 1828.
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    Tales of a Traveller

    Literary Life ... | Followed by | 'The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus ' |
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    Flat Earth

    The common misconception that people before the age of exploration believed that Earth was flat entered the popular imagination after Washington Irving's publication of The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1828.
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    Juan Perez (friar)

    IRVING, Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (New York, 1868); TARDUCCI, Life of Christopher Columbus, tr. BROWNSON (Detroit, 1891);
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    Myth of the Flat Earth

    In 1828, Washington Irving's highly romanticised and inaccurate biography, The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, was published and mistaken by many for a scholarly work.
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    Columbus's Letter on the First Voyage

    Morison, Samuel Eliot, Admiral of the Ocean Sea - A Life of Christopher Columbus, Read Books 2007, ISBN 1-4067502-7-1 ... Jane, Cecil, ed. and trans. Select Documents Illustrating the Four Voyages of Columbus.

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