I think I felt a thrill such as columbus must have felt when the first green vision of America loomed before his eye.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Are we any farther along than were those who put columbus in chains and stoned the Prophets and nailed the Christ to the Cross?
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
About Peter was a sense of ease and rest, of space that was as new to him as America was to columbus.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole