The Lost Diary of Christopher Columbus’s Lookout

The Lost Diary of Christopher Columbus’s Lookout
Clive Dickinson

The eleventh Lost Diary detailing Columbus’ first voyage across the Atlantic and his historic landing in the ‘New World’. As told by Luc Landahoya who tries to work out where he’s going.The diary tells the story within a 12-month span from Spring 1492 when Columbus got the official go-ahead from Ferdinand and Isabella, to the Spring of 1493 when he returned in triumph following his ‘discovery’ of the New World.Life aboard ship, New World discoveries that still survive today tobacco, hammocks, barbecues, canoes, maize etc. The power of the ‘press’ – printed accounts of Colubus’ triumphs spread fast and coming at the end of the 15th Century, the 1492 voyage was part of a significant turning point in european and world history. There are plenty of good-natured laughs in this story – Columbus was convinced he was sailing to China and Japan. He was also convinced he was travelling to a land of untold riches but took along cheap glass beads of worthless trinkets and glass beads as gifts.

The Lost Diary ofChristopher Columbus’sLookout

Caught by Clive DickinsonIllustrated by George Hollingworth

CONTENTS

Cover (#u1622a756-a209-59c6-b769-15c750eca691)

Title Page (#u2b2538bd-c461-5047-a100-34ffb7d75c6a)

Message to Readers (#ud574e418-eff3-50d1-af93-5ecf737b6555)

1 April 1492 – Toledo, central Spain (#u5c0a0da2-9b48-5605-9978-fd637dfd02d5)

2 April 1492 – Toledo, central Spain (#ulink_f6789710-cca0-5582-ad15-3916ecb5ce81)

13 May 1492 – Palos, south-west Spain (#ulink_cbc58b9f-2357-5d55-a590-d6cba14f2e2b)

23 May 1492 – Palos (#ulink_35321061-37fc-53cc-9419-7a28a209969c)

25 May 1492 – Palos (#ulink_362c71e4-71a0-568e-9769-cf89de3079e9)

15 June 1492 – Palos (#ulink_fe7cead8-3598-5417-bbbb-74f506a76b04)

22 June 1492 – Palos (#ulink_8d69d154-be24-5178-b4c9-c272ce869ecf)

23 June 1492 – Palos (#ulink_e77473fb-75ed-53eb-b75b-3990135dee06)

23 July 1492 – Palos (#ulink_60c05c0f-e7c1-5d0f-943d-186ca6d18e8f)

30 July 1492 – Palos (#litres_trial_promo)

1 August 1492 – Palos (but not for much longer) (#litres_trial_promo)

2 August 1492 – abroad the Santa Maria in the Tinto River, Palos) (#litres_trial_promo)

4 August 1492 – somewhere at sea (#litres_trial_promo)

6 August 1492 – somewhere else at sea (#litres_trial_promo)

9 August 1492 – still at sea (#litres_trial_promo)

26 August 1492 – Grand Canary (#litres_trial_promo)

28 August 1492 – Grand Canary (still) (#litres_trial_promo)

5 September 1492 – Gomera (again) (#litres_trial_promo)

10 September 1492 – out on the Ocean Sea (#litres_trial_promo)

17 September 1492 – somewhere on the Ocean Sea (#litres_trial_promo)

25 September 1492 – still somewhere on the Ocean Sea (#litres_trial_promo)

26 September 1492 – still on the Ocean Sea (#litres_trial_promo)

1 October 1492 – Sailing westwards on the Ocean Sea (but for how much longer?) (#litres_trial_promo)

6 October 1492 – on the Ocean Sea (though I’m having doubts about even that now) (#litres_trial_promo)

10 October 1492 – sailing south-west on the Ocean Sea (#litres_trial_promo)

12 October 1492 – very early morning, in the Indies! (#litres_trial_promo)

12 October 1492 – evening in the Indies (#litres_trial_promo)

13 October 1492 – San Salvador (#litres_trial_promo)

16 October 1492 – at sea again (#litres_trial_promo)

24 October 1492 – at sea once more (#litres_trial_promo)

28 October 1492 – in the mouth of a river in the island of Juana (the Admiral has given Colba this name. Don’t ask me why. I thought he thought it was Cipangu.) (#litres_trial_promo)

29 October 1492 – somewhere along the coast from where we were last night (#litres_trial_promo)

2 November 1492 – further west along the coast (#litres_trial_promo)

6 November 1492 – same place (#litres_trial_promo)

12 November 1492 – somewhere off the coast of who knows where (#litres_trial_promo)

21 November 1492 – off the coast again, not far from where we were ten days ago (#litres_trial_promo)

23 November 1492 – further along the coast from two days ago (#litres_trial_promo)

7 December 1492 – the island of Española (#litres_trial_promo)

13 December 1492 – Española (#litres_trial_promo)

18 December 1492 – along the coast of Española (#litres_trial_promo)

23 December 1492 – further along the coast of Española (#litres_trial_promo)

24 December 1492 – Christmas Eve aboard the Sana Maria, sailing along the coast of Española (#litres_trial_promo)