10. Identify the thesis (main idea) for Kirkpatrick Sale A….
10. Identify the thesis (main idea) for Kirkpatrick Sale A. Colon was nothing more than a “businessman” describing resources for potential markets. B. On his first voyage Columbus found himself in the middle of an old-growth tropical forest the likes of which he could not have imagined before, its trees reaching sixty or seventy feet into the sky, more varieties than he knew how to count much less name, exhibiting a lushness that stood in sharp contrast t the sparse and denuded lands he hand known in the Mediterranean, hearing a melodious multiplicity of bird sons an parrot calls-why was it not an occasion of wonder, excitement, and the sheer joy at nature in its full arrogant abundance? C. One measure that Colon could make, and did so frequently, was the utilitarian: if he was not up to describing natural beauty or distinguishing trees, he was a master at determining the potential use and value of all that he saw, whether aloes, mastic, spices, cinnamon, nutmeg, dyes, or medicines, or gold and silver and pearls- it hardly mattered as long as it could be sold in Europe.