Excerpt from The Charm of the Impossible Columbus heard the Voice and it rang out above all the laughter and scorn of his fellows. Having once heard it nothing could silence it. He heard it in the night time, he heard it in the day time, he could not get away from it. He followed it through Italy to Spain, to Portugal, to France, back to the palace, eager even to seize the queen's proffered jewels if thus he might obey the Voice. At last with three small ships and a convict crew he set sail. Through an unknown waste of ...
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Excerpt from The Charm of the Impossible Columbus heard the Voice and it rang out above all the laughter and scorn of his fellows. Having once heard it nothing could silence it. He heard it in the night time, he heard it in the day time, he could not get away from it. He followed it through Italy to Spain, to Portugal, to France, back to the palace, eager even to seize the queen's proffered jewels if thus he might obey the Voice. At last with three small ships and a convict crew he set sail. Through an unknown waste of water with his tiny ships and his handful of frightened men he fol lowed the Voice - and found a world! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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