Dr marc faber biography of christopher columbus
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The Magic Seeds of One’s Way in the World and The Enigma of arrival the Symbolic Meaning of Transport in V. S. Naipaul’s Later Fiction
1To the city of Port of Spain, where with one short break he was to spend the rest of his life..., Mr Biswas came by accident.... At the road junction Mr Biswas had still not decided where to go. Most of the traffic moved north: tarpaulin covered lorries, taxis, buses. The buses slowed down to pass Mr Biswas, and the conductors, hanging out from the footboard, shouted to him to come aboard.... And it was while he was trying to decide whether Ramchand’s invitation could be considered genuine that a bus, its engine partially unbonneted, its capless radiator steaming, came to a stop inches away with a squeal of breaks and a racking of its tin and wood body, and the conductor, a young man, almost a boy, bent down and seized Mr Biswas’s cardboard suitcase, saying imperiously, impatiently, ‘Port of Spain, man, Port of Spain’. (HB, p.
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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. II (of 8), bygd Various, Edited by Justin Winsor
NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL
HISTORY OF AMERICA.
CHAPTER I.
COLUMBUS AND HIS DISCOVERIES.
BY JUSTIN WINSOR,
The Editor.
BEYOND his birth, of poor and respectable parents, we know ingenting positively about the earliest years of Columbus. His father was probably a wool-comber. The boy had the ordinary schooling of his time, and a touch of university life during a few months passed at Pavia; then at fourteen he chose to become a sailor. A seaman’s career in those days implied adventures more or less of a piratical kind. There are intimations, however, that in the intervals of this exciting life he followed the more humanizing occupation of selling books in Genoa, and perhaps got some employment in the making of charts, for he had a deft grabb at design. We know his brother Bartholomew was earning his living in this way when Columbus joined him in Lisbon in 1470
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Christopher Columbus Mariner / created by Samuel Eliot Morison.
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