| Show SEPTEMBER - 0 The Armnom TONACCO COAget 1 :::- - BY N 1991 8 'sUp HERBERT KUPFERBERG LUTIBUS DAYS ) c: iv - - t le '111411011201110m ColturtUs: For WI Cod and Clay (Simon & Schuster $35) and Columbus and the Age of Ma:every (Morrow $40) both of which are expected to have TV tie-iAmid all this fancy stuff it's good to come upon Columbus' own words in an attractive paperback reissue of Rs Leg of Columbus PuNished by International MarineMcGraw-Hil- l and appropriately priced at ) ns - It Olt X tk 40 "- '1) - '''' 4 1 ' es'1)4'54'''''--' ‘ publishers are Columbus in a as the 500th anniversary famous voyage of 1492 approaches Heavily illustrated coffee-tabbooks abound such as IjOC 41 4q ) it AO''''''' 1 11 I ata COUIMBUS k r-- I I i 1 4:) lilt 4 1 1 l I Ili --:z- w Vc N 0 $1492 it presents a tastefully 1 'I ' Ftir 1::Xt i account of his illustrated first voyage during which he covered 3200 miles in 33 tensionfilled days It's fascinating to read such terse notations as this for Sept 10 1492: "Today I made 180 miles at a speed of 712 knots I recorded only 144 miles in order not to alarm the sailors if the voyage is lengthy" The translation is by Robert H Fuson Another worthwhile paperback reissue is Samuel Eliot Morison's solid and salty Admiral of the Oman Sea (Little Brown $2495) which came out in 1941 and has remained the standard biography ever since Finally a children's book—Follow the Dream by the artist Peter Sis - ' himself a recent A "11111474(7 US immigrant (Knopf $15) 711 The text is slim ' 027 but the pictures P' are imaginative ' - r reflecting the 1vi sheer fantasy of G Columbus' trip day-by-d- VI:g2 A t A i r o Sul p t r-- 0 g L-i- 0 Q1 g taste It —Amazing Ilaw i VIMERMINIMONEADI tryIS 01 4"14 ' ' o pli-n-- J I ay 11 !' ': : -- SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Quitting Smoking Now Greatly Reduces Serious Risks to Your Health F 100i 6 mg "tar' 06 mg nicotine Kings and 1110s 12 mg "tar 10 mg nicotine 16 mg 'tar" 13 mg nicotine ay per Ogerctie Ultra Lights Lights & Full Mead Lights Kings and River method by FTC Ws: 1 i f -- ' IPAGE |
