Lives & Memoirs
Life of Columbus
Sir Arthur Helps
2026
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Four voyages, and he died convinced he had reached Asia. Helps gives the Columbus the Victorians argued over: the years begging courts for ships, the crossing of 1492, the landfall that rearranged two hemispheres, the colonies that failed under him, and the return to Spain in irons. Sober, sceptical, and unwilling to make him either a saint or a monster.
Inside this audiobook
16 chapters
- 1Preface10m
- 2CHAPTER I. Early Discoveries in the Fifteenth Century, PART I31m
- 3CHAPTER I. Early Discoveries in the Fifteenth Century, PART II30m
- 4CHAPTER II. Early Years of Columbus19m
- 5CHAPTER III. Columbus in Spain28m
- 6CHAPTER IV. First Voyage40m
- 7CHAPTER V. Homeward bound24m
- 8CHAPTER VI. Second Voyage of Discovery17m
- 9CHAPTER VII. Illness; Further Discoveries; Plots against Columbus28m
- 10CHAPTER VIII. Criminals sent to the Indies; Repartimientos; Insurrection13m
- 11CHAPTER IX. Columbus's Third Voyage19m
- 12CHAPTER X. Arrival at Hispaniola; Bad Treatment by Bobadlilla19m
- 13CHAPTER XI. Columbus pleads his Cause at Court; New Enterprise; Ovando, PART I20m
- 14CHAPTER XI. Columbus pleads his Cause at Court; New Enterprise; Ovando, PART II27m
- 15CHAPTER XII. Remarkable Despatch; Mutiny; Eclipse predicted, and its influence; Mutiny quelled25m
- 16CHAPTER XIII. Falling Fortunes: Conclusion13m
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