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Joachim Heinrich Campe
Christopher Columbus
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4066338078957
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Chapter I
Portuguese Voyages of Discovery—The Youth of Columbus—His Arrival at Lisbon
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The ancient Greeks were not the only nation which imagined there was a region in the Atlantic Ocean, an island beyond the Pillars of Hercules, the sea highway, now called the Straits of Gibraltar. The traditions of other people tell of a land where only happy mortals dwell. Greek poetry assigned this region to the ocean, which was supposed to surround the world as it was known at that time. The Romans also believed in this distant western land, and in the Christian Middle Ages these same traditions were carefully preserved. It was told that many an adventurer sought these Islands of the Blest but never returned home.