Christopher Columbus, Mariner, by Samuel Eliot Morison

Christopher Columbus, Mariner, by Samuel Eliot Morison

Christopher Columbus was born in the port city of Genoa, Italy in 1451. His father

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was a wool weaver named Domenico Columbo. As a boy, Christopher had no schooling. He

and his younger brother Bartholomew helped their father by carding raw wool. Christopher

grew up to be a tall, red-haired, quiet and deeply religious man. He worked for his father until

he was 22. He went out with the sardine fishing fleets, as other Genoese boys did and he sailed

along the coast to Corsica on business for his father. Genoese traders had their own schooners as
did Christopher Columbus’ father. He made at least one trip to the North African coast. On

long trips such as these, Christopher learned the elements of seamanship.

In 1476, Columbus sailed as a common seaman aboard a Genoese merchant ship

that was headed for Lisbon, England and Flanders. Since the Mediterranean nations were at war

at the time, the ship Columbus was on was attacked and went down. Luckily, Columbus was

able to swim to shore and make his way to Lisbon where he …
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…was against him he was being persistent and was

determined to travel westward. There were so many sailors and explorers at that time. Many of

them contemplated on doing what Columbus did but most thought it impossible. Many thought

it foolish. The only man who pulled off the impossible and discovered the other half of the

world, was Christopher Columbus.
Bibliography:

Morison, Samuel Eliot. Christopher Columbus, Mariner. New York: Meridian, 1983.

Encyclopedia Britannica. Fifteenth Edition. Chicago, 1993