Columbus and Desoto (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Columbus and Desoto In the grand old sea-port town of Genoa, lived the little lad whom to-day the whole world knows as Christopher Columbus. He was a thoughtful boy, and, as year after year he saw the ships come in, and heard the wonderful stories that the sailors told, there grew in him a longing to visit those tar away lands, a thirst for adventure, a hope that he, too, might find a "new land." Christopher Columbus was not an ignorant boy. His father, although a simple workingman, seems to have been intelligent, a man who strove to keep alive in his children a love for education, and to give them all the opportunity within his power. Columbus had a fair, common-school education, as we should call it, and had given no little time to drawing, designing, and to the study of astronomy and navigation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.