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Bezig met laden... The Indies Enterprisedoor Erik Orsenna
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. The Adventure narrated by Christopher Columbus brother, Bartolomé. It all starts with their childhood in Genoa, dreaming of fame and sea travel. Then each brother goes his own way, Christopher as a navigator in commercial travel around the Mediterranean and Nordic Sea and Bartolomé as a cartographer in Lisbon. And that's what made this book worth it. We learned about the prestige of Portugal through the travels, the priceless work of the cartographers, the life of the city in the XV century, the different districts and communities. It's lively and well done. The Columbus brothers meet again after the shipwreck of Christopher on the coast of Lisbon. After working a few month alongside Bartolomé in the cartographer workshop, Christopher starts again with his lifelong dream, the discovery of India and who can be more helpful than a cartographer brother working with and knowing the best of them ? This is the beginning of a decade of collecting and cross-checking maps and travel journal and convincing the King council. Then the departure, the quest, the disenchantment ... It's really a great story, a must-read if only so for Lisbon and the cartographers work. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Shipwrecked off the coast of Portugal on the 13th of August 1476, the 25-year-old Genoa-born Christopher Columbus finds refuge with his younger brother Bartholomew, a map maker in Lisbon, the centre of exploration endeavours. Where many would find themselves lost, the Columbus brothers find themselves on the verge of discovery. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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With all this macho conquistadoring going on, there isn't much room for female characters, but during his time in Lisbon, Bartolomé is very preoccupied with the fate of the many sailor's wives in the city (at one point he diversifies from map-making into selling them evidence of their husbands' deaths overseas so that they can remarry) - unmarried himself, in Orsenna's version he seems to become a kind of proxy for his brother's wife, taking over after her death as a mother-figure for his nephew and a "feminine" influence on Christopher, who of course left him behind on his first two voyages.
Entertaining, and nicely done, but I don't think it tells us anything very new about colonialism. ( )