The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Valerie I. J. Flint
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: History; biography
- Time of Work: The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
- Setting: The entire world as it was thought to be in Columbus’ time: Europe and the Atlantic, the newly discovered lands first thought to be Cathay, and the “Terrestrial Paradise”
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, Voyages, Europe or Europeans, Native Americans or American Indians, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Renaissance, Middle Ages, Exploration or explorers, Maps
- Locales: Earth
For generations the historians of North America have presented exploration of the continent as a progressive endeavor. The blank, white spaces on the early maps were slowly filled with information as a result of expeditions led by Europeans—the Spaniards, French, English—and later by the Americans themselves. A representative study was John Bartlett Brebner’s influential The Explorers of North America, 1492-1806 (1933), which presented the exploration of the North American continent as a quest both heroic and scientific at the same time. Exploration continues to exert a...
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