The History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

In 18 22, irving was paid one thousand guineas to write a sequel bracebridge hall or the humorists. Then tales of a traveller followed in 18 24. Critics mostly panned tales of a traveler, and irving seems to have stopped rating for a while. He remained in europe, though, and alexander hill everett, the us Minister to spain, invited him to madrid. Spain had just released archival documents on its colonization of the american use. Irving may have started out following that, but soon he was using these documents, not to translate them, but to de research on his own work. The result was a history of the life