AMERIGO VESPUCCI – Discover the Man Behind the Legend
Exploration, Empire, and Indigenous Encounters in Early Atlantic Travel NarrativesBy Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas, Amerigo Vespucci
Length11h 27m
About this audiobook
AMERIGO VESPUCCI – Discover the Man Behind the Legend assembles foundational early modern accounts of Atlantic encounter, navigation, conquest, and moral crisis. Moving among exploratory letters, travel narrative, documentary testimony, and polemical history, the volume illuminates how the "New World" was described, claimed, imagined, and contested in European writing. Accounts of seaborne discovery and geographical marvel stand beside searching examinations of colonial violence, making the collection valuable not merely as adventure literature but as evidence of an emerging imperial worldview. The voices gathered here represent distinct yet interlocking positions within the first century of Iberian expansion. Christopher Columbus records the ambitions and assumptions of initial expeditionary contact; Amerigo Vespucci's influential narratives helped circulate new conceptions of transatlantic geography; and Bartolomé de las Casas offers an indispensable ethical and historical counterpoint through his sustained attention to Indigenous suffering under conquest. Together, these writers reveal the rhetorical forces behind Renaissance exploration, cartographic transformation, missionary ideology, and the earliest European debates over colonization and human rights. This volume is recommended for readers of travel writing, colonial history, Atlantic studies, and the history of ideas. Its juxtaposed perspectives invite careful comparison of observation, self-fashioning, propaganda, and protest. By placing celebrated discovery narratives in dialogue with a forceful critique of empire, the collection offers both an accessible introduction and a challenging educational encounter with the texts that shaped America's name and Europe's colonial imagination.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length11 hrs 27 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 14, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The History of the Pirates of the Caribbean
2I YOUNG AMERIGO AND HIS FAMILY
3II AMERIGO'S FRIENDS AND TEACHERS
4III VESPUCCI'S FAVORITE AUTHORS
5IV IN THE SERVICE OF SPAIN
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6V CONVERSATIONS WITH COLUMBUS
7VI VESPUCCI'S DEBATABLE VOYAGE
8VII VESPUCCI'S "SECOND" VOYAGE
9VIII WITH OJEDA THE FIGHTER
10IX CANNIBALS, GIANTS, AND PEARLS
11X FAMOUS FELLOW-VOYAGERS
12XI ON THE COAST OF BRAZIL
13XII THE "FOURTH PART OF THE EARTH"
14XIII THE FOURTH GREAT VOYAGE
15XIV KING FERDINAND'S FRIEND
16XV PILOT-MAJOR OF SPAIN
17XVI HOW AMERICA WAS NAMED
18Life of Vespucci by Clements R. Markham
19Letter of Amerigo Vespucci to a "Magnificent Lord"
20First Voyage of Amerigo Vespucci
21Second Voyage of Amerigo Vespucci
22Third Voyage of Amerigo Vespucci
23Fourth Voyage of Amerigo Vespucci
24Letter of Amerigo Vespucci to Lorenzo Pietro F. di Medici
25Evidence of Alonso de Hojeda respecting his Voyage of 1499
26Account of the Voyage of Hojeda, 1499-1500, by Navarrete
27Letter of the Admiral Christopher Columbus to his Son
28Letter of Vianelo to the Seigneury of Venice
29Letter of Naturalization in Favour of Vespucci
30Appointment of Amerigo Vespucci as Chief Pilot
31Chapters from Las Casas, which discuss the Statements of Vespucci
32Chapter CXL
33Chapter CLXIV
34Chapter CLXV
35Chapter CLXVI
36Chapter CLXVII
37Chapter CLXVIII
38Chapter CLXIX
39Evidence respecting the Voyage of Pinzon and Solis
40Las Casas on the Voyage of Pinzon and Solis
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