THE CARIBBEAN AS COLUMBUS SAW IT by Morrison & Obregon (1964 First, HC/DJ)
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THE CARIBBEAN AS COLUMBUS SAW IT by Morrison & Obregon (1964 First, HC/DJ). By Samuel Eliot Morison & Mauricio Obregon. From the Dust Jacket, “The well-known historian Samuel Eliot Morison, following the tradition of Francis Parkman, went to sea in 1939 and 1940 on the trail of the great discoverer, Christopher Columbus. THE CARIBBEAN AS COLUMBUS SAW IT by Samuel Eliot Morison & Mauricio Obregon 1964 , First Edition, Little Brown and Co., Boston, 252 pages. From the Dust Jacket, “The well-known historian Samuel Eliot Morison, following the tradition of Francis Parkman, went to sea in 1939 and 1940 on the trail of the great discoverer, Christopher Columbus. He followed the course of Columbus’s voyages, and wrote ADMIRAL OF THE OCEAN SEA (1942) which won the Pulitzer Prize for biography…In 1963 he revisited the Columbus landfalls and anchorages, approaching them from a new angle — the air, in a plane piloted by Mauricio Obregon, ///Fitted out with a special window for photography, he covered Columbus’s Caribbean with magnificent results.” Enhanced with 291 illustrations (mostly photographs) and a map of the Caribbean Sea on end-papers. Hardcover book in Very Good+ condition, tight and clean with no marks. Pages are clean and white. Blue covers with silver titles on the spine and silver ship design on the front are clean and bright with no wear. Dust jacket is in Very Good condition with some wear along bottom edge; now protected by mylar cover; price unclipped. Visit My Store (See Below) or Check "Popular Categories" for More Items of Interest.
