Admiral of the Ocean Sea, Samuel Eliot Morison
Admiral of the Ocean Sea, Samuel Eliot Morison
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Admiral of the Ocean Sea
A Life of Christopher Columbus

Author: Samuel Eliot Morison

Narrator: Frederick Davidson

Unabridged: 25 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/10/2011

Synopsis

Winner of the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Admiral of the Ocean Sea is Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's classic biography of the greatest sailor of them all, Christopher Columbus. It is written with the insight, energy, and authority that only someone who had himself sailed in Columbus's path to the New World could muster. Morison undertook this expedition in a 147foot schooner and a 47foot ketch, the dimensions of these craft roughly matching those of Columbus's Santa Maria and Nina. The result is this vivid and definitive biography that accurately details the voyages that, for better or worse, changed the world.

About Samuel Eliot Morison

Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976), Rear Admiral, United States Naval Reserve, was an American historian noted for his works of history, especially maritime history, that were both authoritative and highly readable. At various times he held teaching positions at Berkeley, Oxford, and Harvard. A sailor as well as a scholar, he garnered numerous literary prizes, military honors, and national awards from both foreign countries and the United States, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the 1962 American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for History. His Admiral of the Ocean Sea won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

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