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
Length29h 52m
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.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Literary Classics
Length29 hrs 52 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 3, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1AMERIGO VESPUCCI – Discover the Man Behind the Legend
2Eric the Red and the Northmen
3Introduction
4The Saga of Eric the Red
5The Vinland History of the Flat Island Book
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6From Adam of Bremen’s Descriptio Insularum Aquilonis
7From the Icelandic Annals
8Papal Letters Concerning the Bishopric of Gardar in Greenland During the Fifteenth Century
9Christopher Columbus
10CHAPTER I — EARLY LIFE OF COLUMBUS
11CHAPTER II — HIS PLANS FOR DISCOVERY
12CHAPTER III — THE GREAT VOYAGE
13CHAPTER IV — THE LANDING ON THE TWELFTH OF OCTOBER
14CHAPTER V — LANDING ON CUBA
15CHAPTER VI — DISCOVERY OF HAYTI OR HISPANIOLA
16CHAPTER VII — COLUMBUS IS CALLED TO MEET THE KING AND QUEEN
17CHAPTER VIII — THE SECOND EXPEDITION SAILS
18CHAPTER IX — THE NEW COLONY
19CHAPTER X — THE THIRD VOYAGE
20CHAPTER XI — SPAIN, 1500, 1501
21CHAPTER XII — FOURTH VOYAGE
22CHAPTER XIII — TWO SAD YEARS
23APPENDIX A
24SUMMARY
25APPENDIX B
26APPENDIX C
27John Cabot
28The life of John Cabot
29Original Narratives of the Voyages of John Cabot:
30Letter of Lorenzo Pasqualigo to His Brothers Alvise and Francesco, Merchants in Venice
31Despatch to Ferdinand and Isabella From Pedro De Ayala Junior Ambassador at the Court of England, July 25, 1498
32Amerigo Vespucci
33I YOUNG AMERIGO AND HIS FAMILY 1451-1470
34II AMERIGO'S FRIENDS AND TEACHERS 1470-1482
35III VESPUCCI'S FAVORITE AUTHORS 1485-1490
36IV IN THE SERVICE OF SPAIN 1490
37V CONVERSATIONS WITH COLUMBUS 1492 OR 1493
38VI VESPUCCI'S DEBATABLE VOYAGE 1497-1498
39VII VESPUCCI'S "SECOND" VOYAGE 1499-1500
40VIII WITH OJEDA THE FIGHTER 1499
41IX CANNIBALS, GIANTS, AND PEARLS 1499-1500
42X FAMOUS FELLOW-VOYAGERS 1497-1500
43XI ON THE COAST OF BRAZIL 1501-1502
44XII THE "FOURTH PART OF THE EARTH"
45XIII THE FOURTH GREAT VOYAGE 1503-1504
46XIV KING FERDINAND'S FRIEND 1505-1508
47XV PILOT-MAJOR OF SPAIN 1508-1512
48XVI HOW AMERICA WAS NAMED 1504-1541
49Vasco Núñez de Balboa
50I THE MAN-OF-THE-BARREL 1475-1510
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