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Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery : Volume V (Illustrated)

Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery : Volume V (Illustrated)

ByFilson Young

“The writing of historical biography is properly a work of partnership, to which public credit is awarded too often in an inverse proportion to the labours expended. One group of historians, labouring in the obscurest depths, dig and prepare the ground, searching and sifting the documentary soil with infinite labour and over an area immensely wide. They are followed by those scholars and specialists in history who give their lives to the study of a single period, and who sow literature in the furrows of research prepared by those who have preceded them. Last of all comes the essayist, or writer pure and simple, who reaps the harvest so laboriously prepared. The material lies all before him; the documents have been arranged, the immense contemporary fields of record and knowledge examined and searched for stray seeds of significance that may have blown over into them; the perspective is cleared for him, the relation of his facts to time and space and the march of human civilisation duly established;"

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Publication Date
Mar 11, 2014
Language
English
ISBN
9781304929464
Category
History
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors
By (author): Filson Young

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EPUB

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