I picked this book up at an airport a year or so ago, and I figured this would be a great day to plug it. The story of Columbus seems to have lost much of its factual accuracy -this book describes shipwrecks, hurricanes, mutinies, hostile natives, and feuding imperial navies on the high seas. So while most folks enjoy the day off, give some thoughts to the great explorer whose legacy is a 3-day weekend in October.
The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain’s Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Mutiny, Shipwreck, and Discovery by Martin Dugard
The Vikings were here first…500 years before columbus.
actually read this at the beginning of the summer.
ok — half of it. I got stuck with something else. Not a bad first half tho!