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I, Columbus: My Journal 1492-1493

La decouverte de l'Amerique series

The year 1992 will see schoolchildren everywhere celebrating Christopher Columbus's fantastic journey to uncharted lands. This illustrated storybook is a compilation of passages taken from a translation of the actual journal that Columbus kept on his travels—a book to stir all who read it. Full-color and black-and-white illustrations throughout.

Themes
travel
Audience
childrens

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