Columbus

A New York Times bestseller and the first full biography of Christopher Columbus in sixty years, Columbus takes a vital and provocative approach to understanding the extraordinary man who went looking for China and bumped into a new world. Prizewinning author Laurence Bergreen brings to life all four of Columbus's epic transatlantic journeys, showing us as never before the masterful seaman and ambitious entrepreneur who became a slaver, encouraged genocide, and changed the course of world history forever before ending his life broken in body and spirit. Based on Columbus's personal journals and correspondence, as well as eyewitness accounts, this will be the defining portrait of Columbus for years to come.