Dec 29, 2009
Columbus Sails | Columbus Sails
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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