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Margarita Zamora.
Reading Columbus.
Published Berkeley: California U.P., 1993.
Series: Latin American Literature and Culture series, no. 9.
ISBN 0520082974;
ISBN-13: 9780520082977.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printed in the USA by Thomson-Shore, Inc.
Size: 152×227×16mm.
Page count: xvi,248pp.
Main language: English; quotations from the Spanish, and the appendix, are given in the original language followed by an English translation.
Overall condition good: the covers on this copy are a bit scuffed with some grubby marks, some wear on the corners and edges; in other respects doesn’t look too heavily used, the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £10.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price $31.95/£25.00]
Weight without packaging: 379g.

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Contents: Reading Columbus; “This present year of 1492”; “All these are the Admiral’s exact words”; In the margins of Columbus; Voyage to Paradise; Gender & discovery.
Appendices: Carta a los Reyes/Letter to the Sovereigns, 4 March 1493.

Illustrations: 9 monochrome illustrations
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 12pp
Index: yes

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