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  • Mr. Bergreen, Mr. Cliff, Mr. Hunter and Ms. Delaney do not have the linguistic skills to master the literature on their own.

    Faulty Navigators Felipe Fernández-Armesto 2011

  • In a chapter, so garbled as to be nonsensical, on a rebellion that started on Hispaniola in 1497, Mr. Bergreen kills off the same character a troublemaker named Adrián de Mujica by different methods at an interval of 10 pages and six months.

    Faulty Navigators Felipe Fernández-Armesto 2011

  • Because they have not read crucial work in Spanish, Mr. Bergreen and Ms. Delaney misrepresent Columbus's motive—which was social ambition, inspired in part by his self-modeling on fictional heroes such as the Alexander of a Spanish metrical romance, who discovered India by sea, or the storm-tossed protagonist of the Romance of the Cavalier.

    Faulty Navigators Felipe Fernández-Armesto 2011

  • For Mr. Hunter, Mr. Bergreen and Mr. Cliff, at least, some knowledge of the history of navigation would obviously be desirable, but all fail to comprehend Columbus's celestial methods because none of them is aware of recent scholarship in Spanish and French.

    Faulty Navigators Felipe Fernández-Armesto 2011

  • All the authors under review make many howlers, but in this respect Mr. Bergreen is way ahead, managing a rate of one every nine or 10 pages.

    Faulty Navigators Felipe Fernández-Armesto 2011

  • Laurence Bergreen, more modestly, narrates the story of Columbus's ocean crossings, while Douglas Hunter's "The Race to the New World" traces links between John Cabot's project for an Atlantic crossing and that of Columbus, explaining apologetically that, despite the book's title, there was no race.

    Faulty Navigators Felipe Fernández-Armesto 2011

  • So, how exactly does a juggler like Bergreen do it?

    Cari Shane Parven: Following Karen 2010

  • So Bergreen, who considers herself far from perfect as a mother and wife, wrote a book about the non-perfect woman's obsession with the perfect woman.

    Cari Shane Parven: Following Karen 2010

  • Harvard educated herself (but lacking the stalker status of her protagonist Alice Teakle), Bergreen may be one of only a handful of NYC comedians who not only holds a law degree but also practiced law.

    Cari Shane Parven: Following Karen 2010

  • Bergreen is naturally funny, innately silly, and her appreciation of her own humor is contagious.

    Cari Shane Parven: Following Karen 2010

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