The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus.(Brief Article)

The Historian | January 1, 1994| | Copyright

In the same way that pilgrims to the Holy Land projected on its physical geography the images and scenes of sacred history, Christopher Columbus brought to his encounters with the New World an "imaginative landscape" shaped by centuries of European fantasizing about the marvels of the Old World. Valerie I.J. Flint has attempted to recover this menial geography from what Columbus saw, read, and heard about India and China and to explain how this information determined the contents of the reports of his voyages. In the first section of her book the author identifies the principal ...

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