{"product_id":"2940013788213","title":"TALES ABOUT AMERICA AND AUSTRALIA","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                        PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  PARLEY TELLS HOW AMERICA WAS FIRST DISCOVERED,\u003cbr\u003e  AND ABOUT COLUMBUS                                      1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  PARLEY DESCRIBES THE INHABITANTS                       12\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  COLUMBUS SETS SAIL TO RETURN TO SPAIN; ENCOUNTERS\u003cbr\u003e  A DREADFUL STORM                                       21\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  COLUMBUS PREPARES FOR ANOTHER VOYAGE                   35\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  PARLEY TELLS HOW COLUMBUS DISCOVERED THE\u003cbr\u003e  CONTINENT OF AMERICA                                   45\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  PARLEY TELLS HOW COLUMBUS WAS ROBBED OF THE\u003cbr\u003e  HONOUR OF GIVING HIS NAME TO AMERICA                   59\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  PARLEY TELLS HOW COLUMBUS WAS SHIPWRECKED,\u003cbr\u003e  AND OF HIS DEATH                                       65\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  PARLEY TELLS OF OVANDO'S CRUEL TREATMENT OF\u003cbr\u003e  ANACAONA, THE PRINCESS OF HAYTI                        73\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  PARLEY DESCRIBES THE TREES, THE PLANTS, AND\u003cbr\u003e  FLOWERS OF THE NEW WORLD                               79\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  PARLEY TELLS OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO                 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  PARLEY RELATES HOW PIZARRO DISCOVERED AND\u003cbr\u003e  CONQUERED PERU                                        121\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  PARLEY DESCRIBES THE BEAUTIES OF AMERICA              133\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  PARLEY TELLS OF THE FIRST ENGLISH COLONY IN\u003cbr\u003e  AMERICA                                               141\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  PARLEY TELLS OF THE ORIGINAL NATIVE AMERICANS         150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  PARLEY SHOWS HOW THE UNITED STATES AROSE, AND\u003cbr\u003e  WHAT FOLLOWED THEIR ESTABLISHMENT                     165\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  PARLEY TELLS ABOUT NEW SOUTH WALES                    176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  PARLEY DESCRIBES THE INHABITANTS OF AUSTRALIA--THE\u003cbr\u003e  BRITISH SETTLEMENTS--THE GOLD REGIONS--RECENT\u003cbr\u003e  EXPLORATIONS                                          183\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CONCLUSION                                            205\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePARLEY TELLS HOW AMERICA WAS FIRST DISCOVERED, AND ABOUT COLUMBUS THE\u003cbr\u003eDISCOVERER.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow that I have given you an account of European cities in my \"Tales\u003cbr\u003eabout Europe,\" I shall now furnish you with some description of America,\u003cbr\u003ewith its flourishing cities, and its multitude of ships, its fertile\u003cbr\u003efields, its mighty rivers, its vast forests, and its millions of happy\u003cbr\u003eand industrious inhabitants, of which I am quite certain you must be\u003cbr\u003every curious to know something, when you are told that though the world\u003cbr\u003ehas been created nearly six thousand years, and many powerful nations\u003cbr\u003ehave flourished and decayed, and are now scarcely remembered, yet it is\u003cbr\u003eonly three hundred and seventy years ago since it was known that such a\u003cbr\u003ecountry as America existed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was in the year 1492, which you know is only 370 years since, on the\u003cbr\u003ethird of August, a little before sunrise, that Christopher Columbus,\u003cbr\u003eundertaking the boldest enterprise that human genius ever conceived, or\u003cbr\u003ehuman talent and fortitude ever accomplished, set sail from Spain, for\u003cbr\u003ethe discovery of the Western World.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI will now give you a short account of Columbus, who was one of the\u003cbr\u003egreatest men the world ever produced. He was born in the city of Genoa,\u003cbr\u003ein Italy; his family were almost all sailors, and he was brought up for\u003cbr\u003ea sailor also, and after being taught geography and various other things\u003cbr\u003enecessary for a sea captain to know, he was sent on board ship at the\u003cbr\u003eage of fourteen. Columbus was tall, muscular, and of a commanding\u003cbr\u003easpect; his hair, light in youth, turned prematurely grey, and ere he\u003cbr\u003ereached the age of thirty was white as snow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis first voyages were short ones, but after several years, desiring to\u003cbr\u003esee and learn more of distant countries, and thinking there were still\u003cbr\u003enew ones to be discovered, he went into the service of the King of\u003cbr\u003ePortugal and made many voyages to the western coast of Africa, and to\u003cbr\u003ethe Canaries, and the Madeiras, and the Azores, islands lying off that\u003cbr\u003ecoast, which were then the most westerly lands known to Europeans.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his visits to these parts, one person informed him that his ship,\u003cbr\u003esailing out farther to the west than usual, had picked up out of the sea\u003cbr\u003ea piece of wood curiously carved, and that very thick canes, like those\u003cbr\u003ewhich travellers had found in India, had been seen floating on the\u003cbr\u003ewaves; also that great trees, torn up by the roots, had often been cast\u003cbr\u003eon shore, and once two dead bodies of men, with strange features,\u003cbr\u003eneither like Europeans nor Africans, were driven on the coast of the\u003cbr\u003eAzores.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll these stories set Columbus thinking and considering that these\u003cbr\u003estrange things had come drifting over the sea from the west, he looked\u003cbr\u003eupon them as tokens sent from some unknown countries lying far distant\u003cbr\u003ein that quarter: he was therefore eager to sail away and explore, but as","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152664346864,"sku":"2940013788213","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013788213_p0.jpg?v=1763590289","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013788213","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}