New York et al.: Viking, 2011 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pale green boards with gilt monogram & device, dark green spine with gilt titles, xix, 423, [1] pp, 8 ff color plates, 16 ff b & w plates, 7 maps, notes, bibliography, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "Laurence Bergreen's energetic and bracing new biography of Christopher Columbus--startlingly, the first complete portrait in over half a century--takes the full measure of the explorer's remarkable career. ... Drawing on eyewitness reports, Columbus's personal logbooks, and the passionate letters he sent to his Spanish patrons Ferdinand and Isabella, Bergreen digs deep into Columbus's overwrought psyche to explain both his great achievements and his devastating failures." Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

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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 trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history. Yet Columbus made three more voyages within the span of only a decade, each designed to demonstrate that he could sail to China within a matter of weeks and convert those he found there to Christianity. These later voyages were even more adventurous, violent, and ambiguous, but they revealed Columbus's uncanny sense of the sea, his mingled brilliance and delusion, and his superb navigational skills. In all these exploits he almost never lost a sailor. By their conclusion, however, Columbus was broken in body and spirit. If the first voyage illustrates the rewards of exploration, the latter voyages illustrate the tragic costs—political, moral, and economic. In rich detail Laurence Bergreen re-creates each of these adventures as well as the historical background of Columbus's celebrated, controversial career. Written from the participants' vivid perspectives, this breathtakingly dramatic account will be embraced by readers of Bergreen's previous biographies of Marco Polo and Magellan and by fans of Nathaniel Philbrick, Simon Winchester, and Tony Horwitz.

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Bookseller: Twin City Antiquarian Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: EXNW00006
Title: Columbus: The Four Voyages
Author: Bergreen, Laurence
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0670023019
ISBN 13: 9780670023011
Publisher: Viking
Place of Publication: New York et al.
Date Published: 2011
Keywords: Exploration Explorers New World
Bookseller catalogs: Exploration;
X weight: 48 oz
Size: 24 X 16 cm

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