From the author of Over the Edge of the World
Columbus, the Four Voyages - by Laurence Bergreen

A dramatic new biography of the world's most iconic explorer.

Laurence Bergreen’s latest book Columbus: The Four Voyages will change everything you thought you knew about Columbus.

In the first major biography of the iconic explorer in more than sixty years, Bergreen shows us the madness and genius that only those who traveled with him could have seen. Covering his four epic voyages, it's the Columbus you didn't learn about in school. Welcome to the voyages of a lifetime.

Published by the Viking Press, 2011.

Columbus book cover

Recent Praise

The New York Times
A surprising and revealing portrait of a man who might have been the title character in a Shakespearean tragedy.

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