The Boy Who Sailed With Columbus

by Michael Foreman

Leif, orphaned son of a Viking seafarer, joins Columbus and his crew on the voyage to the New World, only to discover the cruelty of European explorers and to be captured by natives, in a beautifully illustrated, provocative account of the voyage.

80 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Michael has worked on magazines, book jackets, animated films, TV adverts, and even for the police, sketching criminals described by witnesses. As well as illustrating many of his own books, Michael has illustrated over a hundred books for authors such as Shakespeare, J. M. Barrie, the Brothers Grimm, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde. Michael has travelled widely - to Africa, Japan, the Arctic Circle, China and Malaysia, the Himalayas, Siberia and New Zealand - to research his books. "I do a lot of research when I'm travelling - I find it thrilling to discover the particular 'art' of different landscapes and work them into a book. But I find I have to travel by myself, otherwise I'm constantly getting involved in other people's impressions of a place... I try to be invisible when I'm travelling, so I tend to listen in on conversations rather than participate in them - I just want to look and draw."

Reviews

[Vanessa Ring · Rating 5 out of 5]

Narra la experiencia de un chico, huérfano, que vive en el monasterio de La Rábida, donde conoce a Colón, embarcando con él en busca de nuevas tierras.

La obra, con un texto breve y muchas ilustraciones de notable calidad (a acuarela) da una visión superficial de los viajes colombinos, las culturas indígenas, etc.

El autor presenta de modo bastante negativo a los primeros españoles que llegaron a América.