Using the letters and journal of Columbus, the biography attributed to his son Fernando and the histories of Las Casas, Oviedo and Peter Martyr, Adams sets out the explorer’s early years, his long search for support, and each of his four voyages. He weighs conflicting accounts and does not spare the greed and cruelty of the colonists.
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