Discovering the New World
Essays and Narratives of Transatlantic Exploration, Colonial Beginnings, and Cultural MemoryBy Julius E. Olson, Edward Everett Hale, Elizabeth Hodges, Frederick A. Ober, Stephen Leacock, Charles W. Colby, Thomas A. Janvier
Length30h 4m
About this audiobook
Discovering the New World gathers historical narrative, travel writing, reflective essay, and imaginative reconstruction around the enduring drama of Atlantic encounter and continental exploration. Its varied selections illuminate discovery not as a single triumphant event but as a sequence of voyages, interpretations, conflicts, and acts of description. Accounts of seafaring adventure, colonial landscapes, and unfamiliar societies sit beside more literary treatments, giving the volume both documentary force and narrative vitality. The contributors—historians, essayists, travelers, educators, and humorists active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—bring distinct intellectual temperaments to the subject. Their writing reflects a period when popular history sought to make exploration vivid for broad audiences, often through the conventions of romance, biography, and national narrative. Read together, these voices reveal how the "New World" was fashioned in historical memory: as geographical reality, cultural meeting ground, and powerful literary idea. This collection rewards readers seeking an accessible yet substantial introduction to the literature of exploration and its later retellings. Its multiplicity of genres and viewpoints encourages critical comparison, inviting readers to consider how narrative form shapes historical understanding. Students, general readers, and scholars alike will find in it a fruitful dialogue between adventure, historiography, and cultural imagination.
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GenreBiography and Memoir, Literary Classics
Length30 hrs 4 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 3, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Discovering the New World
2AMERIGO VESPUCCI – Discover the Man Behind the Legend
3Eric the Red and the Northmen
4Introduction
5The Saga of Eric the Red
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6The Vinland History of the Flat Island Book
7From Adam of Bremen’s Descriptio Insularum Aquilonis
8From the Icelandic Annals
9Papal Letters Concerning the Bishopric of Gardar in Greenland During the Fifteenth Century
10Christopher Columbus
11CHAPTER I — EARLY LIFE OF COLUMBUS
12CHAPTER II — HIS PLANS FOR DISCOVERY
13CHAPTER III — THE GREAT VOYAGE
14CHAPTER IV — THE LANDING ON THE TWELFTH OF OCTOBER
15CHAPTER V — LANDING ON CUBA
16CHAPTER VI — DISCOVERY OF HAYTI OR HISPANIOLA
17CHAPTER VII — COLUMBUS IS CALLED TO MEET THE KING AND QUEEN
18CHAPTER VIII — THE SECOND EXPEDITION SAILS
19CHAPTER IX — THE NEW COLONY
20CHAPTER X — THE THIRD VOYAGE
21CHAPTER XI — SPAIN, 1500, 1501
22CHAPTER XII — FOURTH VOYAGE
23CHAPTER XIII — TWO SAD YEARS
24APPENDIX A
25SUMMARY
26APPENDIX B
27APPENDIX C
28John Cabot
29The life of John Cabot
30Original Narratives of the Voyages of John Cabot:
31Letter of Lorenzo Pasqualigo to His Brothers Alvise and Francesco, Merchants in Venice
32Despatch to Ferdinand and Isabella From Pedro De Ayala Junior Ambassador at the Court of England, July 25, 1498
33Amerigo Vespucci
34I YOUNG AMERIGO AND HIS FAMILY 1451-1470
35II AMERIGO'S FRIENDS AND TEACHERS 1470-1482
36III VESPUCCI'S FAVORITE AUTHORS 1485-1490
37IV IN THE SERVICE OF SPAIN 1490
38V CONVERSATIONS WITH COLUMBUS 1492 OR 1493
39VI VESPUCCI'S DEBATABLE VOYAGE 1497-1498
40VII VESPUCCI'S "SECOND" VOYAGE 1499-1500
41VIII WITH OJEDA THE FIGHTER 1499
42IX CANNIBALS, GIANTS, AND PEARLS 1499-1500
43X FAMOUS FELLOW-VOYAGERS 1497-1500
44XI ON THE COAST OF BRAZIL 1501-1502
45XII THE "FOURTH PART OF THE EARTH"
46XIII THE FOURTH GREAT VOYAGE 1503-1504
47XIV KING FERDINAND'S FRIEND 1505-1508
48XV PILOT-MAJOR OF SPAIN 1508-1512
49XVI HOW AMERICA WAS NAMED 1504-1541
50Vasco Núñez de Balboa
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