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From the author of the Magellan biography, Over the Advantage of the World, a mesmerizing new accounts of the fantastic explorer. Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean searching for a trading path to China, and his sudden landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world record. Yet Columbus made three more voyages within the period of only ten years, each made to show that he could sail to China within a matter of weeks and convert those he found there to Christianity. These later voyages were even more adventurous, violent, and ambiguous, nevertheless they revealed Columbus's uncanny sense of the ocean, his mingled brilliance and delusion, and his superb navigational skills. In every these exploits he hardly ever lost a sailor. By their summary, however, Columbus was shattered in body and nature. In case the first voyage illustrates the rewards of exploration, the latter voyages demonstrate the tragic costs - political, moral, and monetary. In rich fine detail Laurence Bergreen re-creates each one of these adventures as well as the historical qualifications of Columbus's celebrated, controversial career. Written from the participants' vibrant perspectives, this breathtakingly dramatic accounts will be embraced by viewers of Bergreen's previous biographies of Marco Polo and Magellan and by fans of Nathaniel Philbrick, Simon Winchester, and Tony Horwitz.
