The Mysterious History of Columbus: An Exploration of the Man, the Myth, the Legacy

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Vintage Books, 1992 - Biography & Autobiography - 318 pages
Was Christopher Columbus a visionary or an opportunist, a rapacious colonist or a Christian mystic? The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mapmakers gives us a truly judicious portrait of the great navigator--one that is as much about the accretion of the Columbus mythos as it is an absorbing account of his life and character.

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An Exclamation of Discovery
3
His Shining Hour
19
Witnesses to History
31
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