The Many Landfalls of John Cabot.
On 24 June 1497 John Cabot landed somewhere on the eastern seaboard of what is now Canada, yet even today, five hundred years later, no one knows precisely where. Once an issue in diplomatic negotiations over title to a continent, Cabot's landfall has also been the subject, especially in centen...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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University of Toronto Press
1997.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. An Introduction
- 2. Everything We Know about John Cabot. The Documents We Lack. Cabot. Bristol Explorations. The Voyage of 1497. The Landfall. After the Landfall
- 3. Legends of Sebastian. The Cabot That Time Forgot. The Achievement of Sebastian Cabot. Sebastian Cabot Lied. The Resurrection of John
- 4. The Many Landfalls. Newfoundland: Bonavista. Labrador. Cape Breton Island. Maine or Southern Nova Scotia. The Strait of Belle Isle
- 5. Traditions of Invention, 1897: Columbus, Cartier, and Cabot. The Invention of Tradition. Columbus in America, 1892. Cabot in Canada, 1897. Cabot in Newfoundland, 1897. Cabot versus Cartier. The Contest of Traditions. Philatelic Commemoratives
- 6. The History of Discovery.