It takes the average reader 4 hours and 20 minutes to read The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus by Valerie Irene Jane Flint
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Rather than focusing on the well-rehearsed facts of Columbus's achievements in the New World, Valerie Flint looks instead at his imaginative mental images, the powerful "fantasies" that gave energy to his endeavors in the Renaissance. With him on his voyages into the unknown, he carried medieval notions gleaned from a Mediterranean tradition of tall tales about the sea, from books he had read, and from the mappae-mundi, splendid schematic maps with fantastic inhabitants. After investigating these sources of Columbus's views, Flint explains how the content of his thinking influenced his...
The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus by Valerie Irene Jane Flint is 260 pages long, and a total of 65,000 words.
This makes it 88% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 55 minutes to read The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus aloud.
The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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