The Last Voyage of Columbus

Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Mutiny, Shipwreck, and Discovery

Paperback, 320 pages

English language

Published May 8, 2006 by Back Bay Books.

ISBN:
978-0-316-15456-7
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The Year is 1500. Christopher Columbus, stripped of his title Admiral of the Ocean Seas, waits in chains in a Caribbean prison built under his orders, looking out at the colony that he founded, nurtured, and ruled for eight years. Less than a decade after discovering the New World, he has fallen into disgrace, accused by the royal court of being a liar, a secret Jew, and a foreigner who sought to steal the riches of the New World for himself. The tall, freckled explorer with the aquiline nose, whose flaming red hair long ago turned gray, passes his days in prayer and rumination, trying to ignore the waterfront gallows that are all too visible from his cell. And he plots for one great escape, one last voyage to the ends of the earth, one final chance to prove himself. What follows is one of history's most epic-and forgotten-adventures. Columbus …

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Subjects

  • Discovery And Exploration (General)
  • History
  • Biography / Autobiography
  • History: American
  • Adventurers & Explorers
  • Expeditions & Discoveries
  • Historical - General
  • History / General
  • Americas (North Central South West Indies)
  • America
  • Columbus, Christopher
  • Discovery and exploration
  • Explorers
  • Spanish
  • Travel