Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1492-1504 by Laurence Bergreen

Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1492-1504

Laurence Bergreen

423 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous slow-paced
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He knew nothing of celestial navigation or of the existence of the Pacific Ocean. He was a self-promoting and ambitious entrepreneur. His maps were a hybrid of fantasy and delusion. When he did make land, he enslaved the populace he found, encoura...

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