![]() At the peak of the Age of Exploration, Hernando traveled with Columbus on his final voyage to the New World, a journey that ended in disaster, bloody mutiny, and shipwreck. In this innovative work of history, Edward Wilson-Lee tells the extraordinary story of Hernando Colón, a singular visionary of the printing press-age who also happened to be Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son. "Like a Renaissance wonder cabinet, full of surprises and opening up into a lost world." -Stephen Greenblatt "A captivating adventure.For lovers of history, Wilson-Lee offers a thrill on almost every page.Magnificent." -The New York Times Book Review Named a Best Book of the Year by: * Financial Times * New Statesman * History Today * The Spectator * The impeccably researched and vividly rendered account of the quest by Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son to create the greatest library in the world-"a perfectly pitched poetic drama" (Financial Times) and an amazing tour through sixteenth-century Europe. Written from the participants' vivid perspectives, this breathtakingly dramatic account will be embraced by readers of Bergreen's previous biographies of Marco Polo and Magellan and by fans of Nathaniel Philbrick, Simon Winchester, and Tony Horwitz. In rich detail Laurence Bergreen re-creates each of these adventures as well as the historical background of Columbus's celebrated, controversial career. If the first voyage illustrates the rewards of exploration, the latter voyages illustrate the tragic costs- political, moral, and economic. By their conclusion, however, Columbus was broken in body and spirit. In all these exploits he almost never lost a sailor. These later voyages were even more adventurous, violent, and ambiguous, but they revealed Columbus's uncanny sense of the sea, his mingled brilliance and delusion, and his superb navigational skills. Yet Columbus made three more voyages within the span of only a decade, each designed to demonstrate that he could sail to China within a matter of weeks and convert those he found there to Christianity. Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history. It was a great way to help bring history to life and we’ll certainly be trying similar things with some of our other home learning topics over the coming weeks.From the author of the Magellan biography, Over the Edge of the World, a mesmerizing new account of the great explorer. She loved sailing her explorer ship across the ocean and recreating Christopher Columbus’ voyage to the Americas. ![]() Sophie used Duplo figures to represent Christopher Columbus and the indigenous people, and we also added boxes to represent gold and treasure. We set up the tuff tray outside and used sand to recreate Spain and the Americas on opposite sides of the tuff tray and added water. Sophie decided that her ship was going to be the Santa Maria. Your explorer ship is now ready to set sail. Push the bigger sail on to the large straw and the small sail on to the larger straw.Ħ) Add details to the side of the ship using a black marker pen.ħ) Use a glue gun to glue both straws to the bottom of the margarine tub. Draw a red cross in the middle of each sail and punch a hole in the middle along the top and bottom edges.ĥ) Cut the top third off one straw. Once the outside of the tub is covered with tissue paper, spread a layer of glue over the top of the tissue paper layer and leave to dry.ģ) Repeat step 2 to cover the inside of the margarine tub and leave to dry.Ĥ) Cut out two small squares of white paper, one measuring approximately 8cm x 8cm and the other measuring approximately 5cm x 5cm to make the sails. Spread watered-down glue across the outside of the margarine tub and cover with small squares of tissue paper. To make the explorer ship, you will need:ġ) Cut along the sides of the margarine tub to create the shape of the ship as shown below.Ģ) Cut up the tissue paper into small squares. ![]() We had fun making an explorer ship from an old margarine tub and sailing it across a tuff tray to recreate a voyage to the Americas. I thought it would be fun to try and bring history to life with a little crafting and small world play. Our lesson started with watching a short online video clip about Christopher Columbus. ![]() ![]() One of the topics that Sophie’s school has suggested for home learning is to learn about Christopher Columbus. ![]()
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