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377 pages : maps ; 23 cm
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Español
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En la frontera entre España y Francia, un comando policiaco captura a un grupo terrorista que lleva de contrabando un manuscrito antiguo para venderlo en el mercado negro. Mientras tanto, encuentran el cuerpo de una mujer con quince puñaladas. En un inicio parecen casos aislados, pero pronto se revela un punto en común: todo parece girar en torno al Diario de abordo de Cristóbal Colón, perdido desde hace cinco siglos, y del cual hay dos versiones....
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The final decade of the fifteenth century was a turning point in world history. The Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus sailed westward on the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, famously determined to discover for Spain a shorter and more direct route to the riches of the Indies. Meanwhile, a fellow Italian explorer for hire, John Cabot, set off on his own journey, under England's flag. Here, Douglas Hunter tells the fascinating tale of how, during this expedition,...
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426 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Tom Sagan and an unscrupulous zealot, Zachariah Simon, square off in a dangerous game to find the key to a 500 year-old mystery -- a treasure with explosive political significance in the modern world: the lost treasures of the Temple of Jerusalem.
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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. 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. These later voyages were even more adventurous, violent, and ambiguous,...
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1 videodisc (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The true story of Christopher Columbus was not only one of victorious discovery, it was marked by disaster, accusation, and betrayal. Ten short years after his discovery of the New World, Columbus languished in a Caribbean prison. There, awaiting the gallows, he plotted what he called his 'most treacherous' voyage - one that ended with the loss of all four of his ships and left Columbus and his crew shipwrecked with little hope of survival.
19) Navigator
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Time's tapestry volume 3
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323 pages : map ; 24 cm.
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English
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As the fearsome war between Christianity and Islam leaves its mark across the land, a rogue Spanish priest dreams of the final defeat of Islam, for he has found a rent in the tapestry of time, a point where agents from the future used diabolical weapons of destruction to change history. Centuries later, in 1492, as men of vision weary of the strife and are drawn to the unknown West, one such explorer seeks the funding for his voyage--while a mysterious...
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365 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"American Secret Service agent John Winters believes that the idea he is a direct descendant of Christopher Columbus is ridiculous. He believes the claims that Columbus had a secret agenda as he set out to discover a New World are likely false. But then again...what if he's wrong?" -- From dust jacket.
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