Columbus Sails (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Cyril Walter Hodges
- First Published: 1939
- Time of Work: 1491–1493 and 1528
- Setting: Spain, West Indies, the Canary Islands, and Portugal
- Principal Characters: Christopher Columbus, Antonio de la Vega, Father Juan Perez, Miguel Pericas, Martin Alonzo de Pinzon, Don Diego de Arãna, Roderigo Escobedo, Coatta, King Ferdinand, Queen Isabella
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Voyages, Leadership, Native Americans or American Indians, Ships, Sailing or sailors, Fifteenth century, Biography, Monasteries, monks, or monasticism, Exploration or explorers
- Locales: Spain, West Indies, Portugal, Canary Islands
Form and Content
In constructing Columbus Sails, a dramatic biography of Christopher Columbus for young adult readers, Cyril Walter Hodges made two significant initial choices. First, he chose to employ narrators who are eyewitnesses to the action but are a generation younger than the fortyish Columbus. Second, he chose to confine the narrative to the months before Columbus’ departure, the time of the voyage, and the discovery of the New World, with a brief account of the return voyage and its subse- quent effects. The young narrators are close to the action of their...
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