Cristopher Columbus, Mariner (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Samuel Eliot Morison
- First Published: 1942
- Time of Work: 1451–1506
- Setting: Genoa, Italy; Portugal, Spain, and the Caribbean
- Principal Characters: Christopher Columbus, Bartholomew Columbus, Don Diego Colon, Isabella the Catholic, Ferdinand of Aragon
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Voyages, Caribbean, Native Americans or American Indians, Islands, Sailing or sailors, Fifteenth century, Biography, Exploration or explorers
- Locales: Caribbean, Spain, Portugal, Genoa, Italy
Form and Content
Christopher Columbus, Mariner is a shortened and popularized version of Morison’s two-volume Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus, which received the Pulitzer Prize in biography for 1942. The two-volume edition contains extensive notes, which have been omitted for the shorter publication. Christopher Columbus, Mariner is organized chronologically into twenty-one chapters of narrative history in which Morison moves from Columbus’ efforts to gain financial support for his proposed exploration, through four...
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