The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus

by Valerie I.J. Flint

Book Overview

Rather than focusing on the well-rehearsed facts of Columbus's achievements in the New World, Valerie Flint looks instead at his imaginative mental images, the powerful "fantasies" that gave energy to his endeavors in the Renaissance. With him on his voyages into the unknown, he carried medieval notions gleaned from a Mediterranean tradition of tall tales about the sea, from books he had read, and from the mappae-mundi, splendid schematic maps with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691056811
• ISBN13: 9780691056814
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"