Sources

Sources and Photo Credits:

Books:

Columbus, Christopher. The Log of Christopher Columbus. Trans. Robert H. Fuson. Camden, ME: International Marine Publishing Co., 1987.

Huyghe, Patrick. Columbus was last. New York: Hyperion, 1992.

Koning, Hans. Columbus: His Enterprise. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1991.

Morison, Samuel Eliot. Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A life of Christopher Columbus. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1942.

Nabokov, Peter, ed. Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-1992. New York: Viking Penguin, 1991.

Rogozinski, Jan. A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present. New York: Facts On File Inc., 1992.

Rouse, Irving. The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

Stannard, David E. American Holocaust: Columbus and the conquest of the New World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Taviani, Paolo Emilio. Columbus: The Great Adventure. Trans. Luciano F. Farina and Marc A. Beckwith. New York: Orion Books, 1991.

Photo Credits:

(A portrait of Christopher Columbus)
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division [reproduction number LC-USZ62-51767]

(Inscription on the front of the house where Columbus is believed to have been born, Genoa, Italy)
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division [reproduction number LC-USZ62-103074]

(Columbus at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella)
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division [reproduction number LC-USZC4-2919]

(Columbus departs from Spain)
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division [reproduction number LC-USZC4-1727]

(View of San Salvador)
Photo courtesy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Department of Commerce – San Salvador Island, Bahamas Islands July, 1985

(Columbus takes possession for Spain)
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division [reproduction number LC-USZC2-1687]

(Columbus among the Indians)
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division [reproduction number LC-USZ62-105453]

(Columbus’s return to Spain)
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division [reproduction number LC-USZC2-3750]

(Columbus’s Coat of Arms)
In Christopher Columbus, His Book of Privileges, 1502, Facsimile. London, 1893.
Harisse Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress

(The death of Columbus)
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division [reproduction number LC-USZC2-1686]

(Columbus statue, Washington, D.C.)
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division [reproduction number LC-USW361-742]

(A replica of the Santa Maria in Columbus, Ohio)
Photo use compliments of Columbus Santa Maria Inc.