books.google.com - From the author of the Magellan biography, Over the Edge of the World, a mesmerizing new account of the great explorer Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history....http://books.google.com/books/about/Columbus.html?id=3Dyhtkk4VQcC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareColumbus