BR 1-20 Christopher Columbus

Land ahoy!(P.25)




I was read this book first time. Christopher Columbus longed to go to sea. He thought about it all day and dreamed of it all night. Living near the busy port of Genoa, in Italy, he loved watching ships arrive from far away places, packed with precious silks and spices. he would gaze at the busy, shouting merchants, the sailors and sea captains with a determined look on his face. One day, he7d be among them. His father ran a weaving business and expected Columbus to join him. But his son had other ideas. He meant to travel the world. When he was 14, he joined a merchant ship that carried goods to sell in ports all over the Mediterranean. Columbus wanted to learn all he could about the sea. When he wasn't scrambling up ropes or scrubbing decks, he was teaching himself to read and looking at great charts of the ocean. He experimented with using a compass and learned to plot the ship's position. Then, when he was 26, everything changed. Columbus was sailing on a ship near the coast of Portugal when French warships fired at the crew. Columbus jumped into the sea and grabbed hold of a floating oar. Clinging on tightly, he drifted until he came ashore near Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. The year was 1477 and Portugal was flourishing from trade with newly discovered lands along the coast of Africa.


I read this book first time. Columbus is very strong man I think. i want to read many books after this.

260 words.

Reference

Lacey Minna. (2004). Christopher Columbus. London: Usborn