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Success of the 1943 Pulitzer Reward for Biography Admiral of the Sea Sea is Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's typical biography of the best sailor of them all, Christopher Columbus. It really is written with the understanding, energy, and power that only someone who experienced himself sailed in Columbus's path to the brand new World could muster. Morison undertook this expedition in a 147-feet schooner and a 47-foot ketch, the dimensions of these craft roughly matching those of Columbus's Santa Maria and Nina. The result is this vibrant and definitive biography that accurately details the voyages that, for better or worse, modified the entire world.Samuel Eliot Morison, Backside Admiral, USA Naval Reserve (1887-1976), was an American historian mentioned for his works of record, especially maritime record, that were both authoritative and highly readable. At various times he held teaching positions at Berkeley, Oxford, and Harvard. A sailor as well as a scholar, he garnered numerous literary awards, armed forces honors, and national prizes from both foreign countries and USA, like the Presidential Medal of Independence. His Admiral of the Sea Sea acquired the 1943 Pulitzer Reward for biography.
