The Race To The New World - Christopher Columbus, John Cabot And A Lost History Of Discovery (Epub) Gooner

Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Reprint edition (October 2, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0230341659
ISBN-13: 978-0230341654

Every schoolchild knows that "in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue"—but what they don't teach you in history class is that he wasn't the only one. In The Race to the New World, Douglas Hunter tells for the first time the fascinating tale of how Christopher Columbus was embroiled in a high-stakes race with Venetian John Cabot to find a shortcut to the East—and how they found a New World that neither was looking for. Employing fresh research and new translations of critical documents, Hunter reveals the surprisingly intertwined lives of the fabled explorer and his forgotten rival, and provides a fresh perspective on the first years of the European discovery of the New World.

Biography
Douglas Hunter has written extensively on historical matters, including marine and terrestrial archaeology, cartography, and exploration. He is presently a doctoral candidate in history at Canada's York University. He maintains the blog Age of Discovery News and can be followed on Twitter at @ageofdiscovery and @DWHauthor. His author website is www.douglashunter.ca, and it provides additional materials on recent releases and archived magazine and journal articles. You can also find him at Librarything and Goodreads.
His most recent books are:
* The Race to the New World, on the exploration rivalry between Christopher Columbus and John Cabot. Visit www.racenewworld.org to learn more
* Half Moon, on the Henry Hudson voyage of 1609
* God's Mercies, on the traumatic convergence in the careers of Samuel de Champlain and Henry Hudson.
His work on historical subjects has also appeared in Canadian Geographic and Canada's History (formerly The Beaver) and at History News Network. He is a featured interview in National Geographic's The Hudson: The River that Defined America, and in the CBC documentary The Mystery of Champlain. He won the 2003 National Business Book Award for The Bubble and the Bear. God's Mercies was a finalist for both the Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize and the Governor-General's Literary Awards.
A lifelong sailor, he is coauthor with Steve Killing of Yacht Design Explained. He raced Lightnings in his youth, and campaigned a Fusion 15 racing dinghy more recently. An advocate of Great Lakes wilderness cruising, he explores Georgian Bay aboard a C&C 27.