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The voyage of Christopher Columbus : Columbus' own journal of Discovery / newly restored and translated by John Cummins

By:

Columbus, Christopher, , 1451-1506

Contributor(s):

Cummins, John

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson , 1992Description: vii, 241 p. : , [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cmISBN:

9780297812333

Subject(s):

Columbus, Christopher , 1451-1506

DDC classification:

92 COL

Summary: The explorer's shipboard journal details his first voyage to the New World and his fateful encounter with the natives. It exists today only in a later manuscript copy by Bartolome de Las Casas, who paraphrased extensively in the third person. By restructuring this version and supplementing it with other sources, Cummins (Spanish, Univ. of Aberdeen) claims to have restored the original in a nonliteral translation that ``remodels'' Columbus's cumbersome Spanish. The resulting lively and highly readable narrative will have historians arguing about the authenticity of its voice. The transcription and literal translation contained in The ``Diario'' of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America (Univ. of Oklahoma Pr., 1989) remains the standard scholarly English-language edition, but general readers will enjoy Cummins's work.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	92 COL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Expurgado/No disponible		067201

The explorer's shipboard journal details his first voyage to the New World and his fateful encounter with the natives. It exists today only in a later manuscript copy by Bartolome de Las Casas, who paraphrased extensively in the third person. By restructuring this version and supplementing it with other sources, Cummins (Spanish, Univ. of Aberdeen) claims to have restored the original in a nonliteral translation that ``remodels'' Columbus's cumbersome Spanish. The resulting lively and highly readable narrative will have historians arguing about the authenticity of its voice. The transcription and literal translation contained in The ``Diario'' of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America (Univ. of Oklahoma Pr., 1989) remains the standard scholarly English-language edition, but general readers will enjoy Cummins's work.

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