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The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America, 1492-1493Author(s): Christopher Columbus, Oliver Dunn, James E. Kelley\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press, United States\nImprint: University of Oklahoma Press\nISBN-13: 9780806123844, 978-0806123844\nSynopsis\nAs the Quincentennial Celebration of Christopher Columbus's discovery of America approaches, interest in the voyage, and in the questions surrounding it, continues to grow. This definitive edition of Columbus's account of the voyage presents the most accurate printed version of his journal available to date. Unfortunately both Columbus's original manuscript, presented to Ferdinand and Isabella along with other evidence of his discoveries, and a single complete copy have been lost for centuries. The primary surviving record of the voyage-part quotation, part summary of the complete copy-is a transcription made by Bartolom de las Casas in the [url] new edition of the Las Casas manuscript prese.