Columbus: The Four Voyages

Columbus: The Four Voyages

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 tra…

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