Author washington irving biography of columbus
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A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
Book by Washington Irving
A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus is a fictional biographical account of Christopher Columbus written by Washington Irving in 1828.
It was published in four volumes in Britain and in three volumes in the United States.[1][2][3] The work was the most popular treatment of Columbus in the English-speaking world until the publication of Samuel Eliot Morison's biography Admiral of the Ocean Sea in 1942.[3] It is one of the first examples of American historical fiction and one of several attempts at nationalistic myth-making undertaken by American writers and poets of the 19th century.[4] It also helped to perpetuate the myth that medieval people believed the Earth was flat.
Writing
Irving was invited to Madrid to translate Spanish-language source material on Columbus into English. Irving decided to use the sources t