Excerpt from The Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 58: October, 1923Four hundred and thirty - one years ago this month Christopher Columbus saw America for the first time. He had spent many dreary nerve - wrack ing days upon the heaving, threaten ing, almost wholly unknown Atlantic. He had spent years in preparation for his great adventure.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.