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Saturday Evening Post Article Greatest Voyage Ever Made, October 3, 1959Entry/Object ID
AM1991.1.128AFScope and Content
Saturday Evening Post Article Greatest Voyage Ever Made, October 3, 1959. This article is written by Samuel Morison. There is a picture of Christopher Columbus. Under the picture is a note that there are at least eighty so-called portraits of Columbus, none of them painted in his lifetime. This nineteenth-century version, from the Naval Museum of Madrid, is probably as accurate as any.
This author states that the voyage of discovery that took him to "The Indies" and home was no blind chance, but his own creation, long studied, carefully planned, carried through by virtue of his courage, sea knowledge and indomitable will.
He never accomplished what he was trying to do; he never did find a new, short sea route from Europe to Eastern Asia. What he achieved was accidental, although of a magnitude that he never even imagined. On his third voyage, in 1498, after he had touched the American continent at Venezuela and observed the vast volume of fresh water flowing from the Oreinoco, he did indeed write, "This is an Other World." But he died believing that this New or Other World of his discovery lay in about the same relations to the Asiatic continent that Indonesia actually does to Malaya. For him, Japan and China were always just around the next headland, and it remained for Magellan to fine out how really remote they were.
This article tells of his life's journey and his accomplishments.Lexicon
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Naval Museum of Madrid, Saturday Evening Post, Columbus Discovery of AmericaRelationships
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Samuel Eliot Morison
